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The portraits by Mrs. Pearson have ever an air of identity about them, and in the opinion of many, this, after all, in portraiture, is the only quality that the artist need to be so very solicitous to produce. The head of Lady Mostyn, however, is worthy of higher
139:, who later became the solicitor to the City of London and a member of parliament. Following her marriage, she continued her study of the old masters, as well as painting portraits and some landscapes. She won silver medals for views of the Rhine, and of 275:, Chamberlain of the City of London, "as he appeared in the act of presenting the freedom of the city, in a gold box, to the Earl Grey, in the Court of Common Council". (exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1834; Corporation of London). 195:
She did not show work at any of the major London exhibitions after 1842. In 1844 she presented a portrait of Lord Chief Justice Denman to the Corporation of London. According to a report in
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She had a daughter, Mary Dutton Pearson. She died on 15 April 1871, aged 72, at Brighton, and was buried with her husband in a large sarcophagus tomb at
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She was born on 18 June 1798 in Birchin Lane in the City of London, daughter of Robert Dutton, a bookseller who also ran a circulating library in
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Her sister, a miniature painter (named in the catalogues simply as "Miss Dutton") showed portraits of her at the Royal Academy in 1834 and 1852.
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and daughter-in-law, Lady Caroline Hill (both c.1836) belonging to the British Postal Museum and Archive are attributed to Pearson.
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A Dictionary of Artists who have exhibited works in the principal London exhibitions of oil paintings from 1760 to 1880
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after her portraits of Sir John Key, Edward Pryce Baron Mostyn, Richard Grimshaw Lomax and David Salomons.
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Illustrated Catalogue (with Descriptive Notes) of the Permanent Collection of Paintings and Sculptures
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She painted numerous portraits of leading figures in the Corporation of London, including several
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Some dates and spellings are corrected by in a letter to the editor on p, 303 of the same volume.
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The Royal Academy: A Complete Dictionary of Contributors from its Foundations in 1769 to 1904
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The Royal Academy: A Complete Dictionary of Contributors from its Foundations in 1769 to 1904
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The Royal Academy: A Complete Dictionary of Contributors from its Foundations in 1769 to 1904
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J. Humphrey, M.P., Sheriff of London and Middlesex (exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1832).
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Elmes, the building's architect, describes Pearson as "the distinguished portrait-painter"
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Samuel Birch, Lord Mayor of London (1832; City of London Corporation).
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Thomas Kelly, Lord Mayor. (exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1837).
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Information on works shown at the Royal Academy is from
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She exhibited at the Royal Academy between 1830 and 1856
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of Drury Lane Theatre in the character of Ellen in the
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between 1821 and 1842. She was an early member of the
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She exhibited 31 works, almost all portraits, at the
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This copy, and one of 642:"Search object details" 508:. 33 (New Series): 574. 285:William Taylor Copeland 245:William Joseph Eastwick 190:William Taylor Copeland 171:, on the south side of 79: 57:15 April 1871 (aged 72) 165: 103: 102:by Mary Martha Pearson 92: 91:by Mary Martha Pearson 564:"Our Weekly Gossip". 519:Elmes, James (1858). 207:West Norwood Cemetery 160: 98: 87: 72:West Norwood Cemetery 504:"Critical Notices". 457:. 1904. p. 188. 428:The Monthly Magazine 197:The Athenæum Journal 135:In 1817 she married 47:Birchin Lane, London 388:Nichols, John Gough 112:British Institution 29:Mary Martha Pearson 20:Mary Martha Pearson 370:: 241–4. May 1826. 304:Thomas Wright Hill 226:Falls of the Clyde 108:Gracechurch Street 104: 93: 622:. British Library 525:Notes and Queries 130:Titian's Daughter 77: 76: 719: 654: 653: 651: 649: 644:. 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Birchin Lane, London
Brighton
West Norwood Cemetery


Gracechurch Street
British Institution
Pall Mall
Claude
The Embarkation of the Queen of Sheba
Charles Pearson
Bodiam Castle
Royal Academy
Society of British Artists
Westminster
St James's Park
Lord Mayors
The Times
William Taylor Copeland
West Norwood Cemetery
Miss Smithson
Stapleton Cotton
Chapman Marshall
William Joseph Eastwick
Mrs S.C. Hall
John Key
Lord Denman
Sir James Shaw
Henry Winchester
William Taylor Copeland

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