Margaret Gillies (1803-1887), Painter
Sitter in 2 portraits
Artist associated with 9 portraits
In the 1820s Margaret Gillies was a pupil of Frederick Cruikshank, a Scottish miniature painter. During the first two decades of her career Gillies made large miniature portraits, and some subject compositions, that were exhibited widely, including at the Royal Academy and the Society of British Artists. She produced portraits of many of the leading writers, intellectuals and social reformers of the day. From the 1840s she specialised increasingly in larger subject pictures, often portraying suffering heroines from the Bible, literature and history. After 1851, when she studied in Paris under Henri and Ary Scheffer, her major works became increasingly religious in tone and allegorical in subject.
by Margaret Gillies
watercolour and gouache on ivory, 1838-1846
NPG 1267
Richard Henry (or Hengist) Horne
by Margaret Gillies
oil on panel, circa 1840
NPG 2168
after Margaret Gillies
photograph of drawing, touched with chalk, 1850-1875
NPG 1514
Charlotte Saunders Cushman; Susan Cushman as Romeo and Juliet
by Thomas Fairland, published by Thomas McLean, after Margaret Gillies
hand-coloured lithograph, 1840s
NPG D34485
by Alfred Harral, after Margaret Gillies
wood engraving, 1840s-1850s
NPG D4398
by Edward McInnes, published by Sir Francis Graham Moon, 1st Bt, after Margaret Gillies
mezzotint, published 6 August 1841
NPG D36298
by Edward McInnes, published by Sir Francis Graham Moon, 1st Bt, after Margaret Gillies
mezzotint, published 6 August 1841
NPG D13986
by James Charles Armytage, published by Smith, Elder & Co, after Margaret Gillies
stipple engraving, published 1844
NPG D8396
by Charles William Sherborn, after Margaret Gillies
etching, 1887
NPG D21204
All paintings by this artist on the BBC Your Paintings website
Place
France
