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1723 Dundee, Scotland - 1778 At Sea near Madras, India. Known for: Portrait painting of aristocrats, miniatures.
Katherine Read (or Catherine) (1723—1778), was a Scottish portrait-painter. She was for some years a fashionable artist in London, working in oils, crayons, and miniature. From 1760 she exhibited... Read full biography
Katherine Read (or Catherine) (1723—1778), was a Scottish portrait-painter. She was for some years a fashionable artist in London, working in oils, crayons, and miniature. From 1760 she exhibited almost annually with either the Incorporated Society of Artists, the Free Society of Artist, or the... Read full biography
Katherine Read (or Catherine) (1723—1778), was a Scottish portrait-painter. She was for some years a fashionable artist in London, working in oils, crayons, and miniature. From 1760 she exhibited almost annually with either the Incorporated Society of Artists, the Free Society of Artist, or the Royal Academy, sending chiefly portraits of ladies and children of the aristocracy, which she painted with much grace and refinement. Read was born in Dundee, Scotland, on 3 February 1723, to Alexander... Read full biography
Katherine Read (or Catherine) (1723—1778), was a Scottish portrait-painter. She was for some years a fashionable artist in London, working in oils, crayons, and miniature. From 1760 she exhibited almost annually with either the Incorporated Society of Artists, the Free Society of Artist, or the Royal Academy, sending chiefly portraits of ladies and children of the aristocracy, which she painted with much grace and refinement. Read was born in Dundee, Scotland, on 3 February 1723, to Alexander and Elizabeth Read, and one of thirteen children of an affluent Forfarshire family.[2] She may have received her education in Edinburgh. Her mother was the sister of Sir John Wedderburn, 5th Baronet of Blackness, who fought in the Jacobite rising of... Read full biography
Katherine Read (or Catherine) (1723—1778), was a Scottish portrait-painter. She was for some years a fashionable artist in London, working in oils, crayons, and miniature. From 1760 she exhibited almost annually with either the Incorporated Society of Artists, the Free Society of Artist, or the Royal Academy, sending chiefly portraits of ladies and children of the aristocracy, which she painted with much grace and refinement. Read was born in Dundee, Scotland, on 3 February 1723, to Alexander and Elizabeth Read, and one of thirteen children of an affluent Forfarshire family.[2] She may have received her education in Edinburgh. Her mother was the sister of Sir John Wedderburn, 5th Baronet of Blackness, who fought in the Jacobite rising of 1745, and whose daughters were cared for by Read after his execution. When the war ended at the Battle of Culloden and with family friend... Read full biography
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Portrait of lady Elizabeth Harcourt, Lady Lee seated embroidering
Catherine Read Auction: 11/15/1990Lot: 62Subscribe or get free alerts
Art images copyright© of artist or assigneePortrait of Lady Isabella Stanhope, later Countess of Sefton (1748-1819), half-length, in Hussar's costume, with a blue pelisse over a braided red dolman
Catherine Read Auction: 05/23/2012Lot: 31Subscribe or get free alerts
Art images copyright© of artist or assigneePortraits of Charles-Philippe de Bourbon, Count of Artois (1757-1836) and Marie-Adélaïde Clotilde Xavière de Bourbon, known as Madame Clotilde (1759-1802 )
Catherine Read Auction: 02/15/2022Lot: 16Subscribe or get free alerts
Art images copyright© of artist or assigneePortrait of Lady Louisa Conolly, née Lennox (1743-1821), half-length, in a yellow and blue striped dress with a black lace shawl, holding lace and a bobbin
Catherine Read Auction: 07/22/2020Lot: 71Subscribe or get free alerts
Art images copyright© of artist or assigneeA PORTRAIT OF DIANA STURT, LATER LADY MILNER (1758-1805), THREE-QUARTER-LENGTH, IN A BLUE CLOAK TRIMMED WITH ERMINE AND HOLDING A CITTERN
Catherine Read Auction: 12/05/2013Lot: 98Subscribe or get free alerts
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