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Regency Portraits Catalogue

Mary Anne Clarke (née Thompson) (1776-1852), Mistress of the Duke of York

Mistress of the Duke of York and centre of the military patronage scandal.

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Apollo, June 1966, p 408.

Berry 1970
Paul Berry, By Royal Appointment, 1970.

Connoisseur, March 1966, p 162.

Foskett 1972
Daphne Foskett, Dictionary of British Miniature Painters, 1972, II, plate 29 (91) (NPG 2793 reproduced).

NPG Annual Report 1964-5, p 48.


This extended catalogue entry is from the out-of-print National Portrait Gallery collection catalogue: Richard Walker, Regency Portraits, National Portrait Gallery, 1985, and is as published then. For the most up-to-date details on individual Collection works, we recommend reading the information provided in the Search the Collection results on this website in parallel with this text.