Anne, Lady Beechey (born Anne Phyllis Jessop; 3 August 1764 – 14 December 1833) was a British portrait painter.
Life
Anne's arms granted in 1829: Or between two bars as many mullets Gules in chief three leopards faces and in base a mullet of the last.[1]
Beechey was born in Thorpe St Andrew near Norwich, Norfolk, in 1764 as Anne Phyllis Jessop. She developed a successful portrait business and she met William Beechey who was also a painter. William was in Norwich between 1782 and 1787 and it presumed they met at that time. In 1787 she exhibited works at the Royal Academy as "Miss A. P. Jessup"(sic).[2]
William was a widower in 1793 with five children after his first wife, Mary Ann, died.[2] Beechey and Jessop wed in 1793.[2] She continued to exhibit at the Royal Academy from 1795 to 1805. She used the name Mrs Beechey until 1799, when she became Lady Beechey.[2]
Jane Henrietta Frances Beechy (born 19 December 1809)
Their children included a high number of notable painters. Beechey died in Harley Street.[2]
References
^"Grant of Arms: Sir William Beechey 1829". Heraldry Online. Retrieved 25 August 2019.
^ a b c d eJohn Wilson, ‘Beechey, Sir William (1753–1839)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, Oct 2006 accessed 2 May 2017
^Anna Dodsworth Beechey, NPG, Retrieved 2 May 2017