Mary Grace

Mary Grace (died 1799/1800) was a British self-taught professional portrait painter and copyist in the 18th century.

[1] Mary Hodgkiss' father was a shoemaker,[1] so her skill as a painter is thought to be self-taught, although she may have had some assistance from Stephen Slaughter.

The National Portrait Gallery has copies of this print and another, again after Mary Grace, of Thomas Bradbury, but engraved by Jonathan Spilsbury.

[3] Grace exhibited her own compositions at the Society of Artists of Great Britain every year from 1762 to 1769,[1] and also obtained work copying other images.

The Death of Sigismunda (1765), Antigonous, Seleucus and Stratonice (1767)), and contemporary scenes such as Beggars (1763) and Pea-Pickers Cooking Their Supper (1764).

Reverend Thomas Bradbury after Grace [ 3 ]