About Mary Black
Lived 1737 – 1814 (aged 76–77). Mary Black was a painter.
Mary Black (c.1737 – 24 November 1814) was an English artist known for her portrait paintings.
Biography
Black was born in London the first of two children born to the artist Thomas Black, (1715–1777), and his wife, Mary. By 1760, she was working as an assistant to the artist Allan Ramsay producing copies and reproductions of works by Old Masters. She received a commission to paint portraits of Dr. James Mounsey, a physician in the Russian court, and his cousin Dr. Messenger Mounsey.
As well as painting portraits, Black taught painting to members of a number of fashionable, aristocratic families. Financial success allowed her to live independently while maintaining a household with servants and a carriage. She never married and died suddenly at home in London in 1814.
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Who was Mary Black?
Black, Mary (c.1737–1814), artist
When was Mary Black born?
Mary Black was born in 1737 in London.
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Mary Black died on 24 November 1814 in London.
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Mary Black was a painter.
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