Elizabeth Carmichael
Professor John Young; 1750ish-1820 by Elizabeth Carmichael

Elizabeth Carmichael was an English portraitist active in London between 1768 and 1820.

Life

Carmichael is known to have worked in oil and pastel. She exhibited at the Free Society in 1768; the Society of Artists of Great Britain from 1769 until 1771 and at the Royal Academy from 1777 until 1789. Twice when exhibiting in the 1760s she gave an address in Newport Street;[1] she also lived in Bentinck Street during her career.[2] She is likely the artist to whom Benjamin West gave permission, in an 1818 letter, to copy his sketches. A half-length portrait by Carmichael of John Young of the University of Glasgow is today in the collection of the Hunterian Art Gallery.[1][3]

References

  1. 1 2 Profile at the Dictionary of Pastellists Before 1800.
  2. ↑ George Kearsley (1778). Kearsly's Gentleman and Tradesman's Pocket Ledger: For the Year 1778: ... G. Kearsly, and sold. pp. 151–.
  3. ↑ Christopher Wright; Catherine May Gordon (2006). British and Irish Paintings in Public Collections: An Index of British and Irish Oil Paintings by Artists Born Before 1870 in Public and Institutional Collections in the United Kingdom and Ireland. Yale University Press. pp. 229–. ISBN 0-300-11730-2.


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