Elizabeth Harvey (19th-century painter)

Elizabeth or Elisabeth Harvey (née Norton, married name de Pulley, 1778 – 12 August 1858) was an English artist known for Malvina Lamenting the Death of Oscar and for portraits of Jacques-Henri Bernardine de Saint-Pierre and his family.

Sketch of Elisabeth Harvey and her half-sister Henrietta by Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres in 1806

Hans Naef has established, on the basis of letters from Jean-Francois Ducis, that Elisabeth was born out of wedlock to Elizabeth Harvey, née Hill, and William Norton, 2nd Baron Grantley.[1] She studied painting in Italy, where she lived for "five or six years," and then lived in Paris with her mother and elder sister, Henrietta (1774 – 1852).[2]

Under the name Elisabeth Harvey, she exhibited paintings at the Paris Salon between 1802 and 1812, including Malvina Lamenting the Death of Oscar based on a poem by James Macpherson,[3] her Portrait of Bernardin de Saint-Pierre and his family, which survives in a copy by Paul-Michel-Claude Carpentier, and a lost painting titled Edwy and Elgiva, among other portraits.[1]

In 1804, the Harvey sisters were the subject of a sketch by Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres.[4] Either Elisabeth or Henrietta was the subject of another Ingres sketch, Miss Harvey Sketching, in 1807.[5] The memoirs of Auguste Barbier indicates that the friendship between Ingres, the Harveys, and the family of Bernardine de Saint-Pierre continued into the 1840s.[6]

The family was described on the occasion of the 1806 Salon: "…a mother whose intelligence, amiability and enlightened taste in literature and the arts are well known, and alongside a sister who has had some success in the same field. The elder Miss Harvey [Henrietta] has acquired a particular skill in painting in sepia on ivory, from classical models or from the best works of the great masters."[7] Henrietta, however, did not exhibit in the Salon.

On 28 January 1818 she married Etienne-Babolin Randon de Pully, and they had a son, William-Enguerran. In 1850 she was living in the Château de Puygirault. She died there in 1858.[8]

Bernardin de Saint-Pierre and his family, 1804 (copy by Paul-Michel-Claude Carpentier)
Bernardin de Saint-Pierre and his family, 1804 (copy by Paul-Michel-Claude Carpentier)
Malvina mourning the death of Oscar, 1806
Malvina mourning the death of Oscar, 1806
Edwy and Elgiva, 1812 (copy from Annales du musée et de l'école moderne des beaux-arts)
Edwy and Elgiva, 1812 (copy from Annales du musée et de l'école moderne des beaux-arts)
Portrait of Bernardin de Saint-Pierre attributed to Harvey
Portrait of Bernardin de Saint-Pierre attributed to Harvey

References

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  1. ^ a b Naef, Hans (1971). "Henrietta Harvey and Elizabeth Norton: Two English Artists". The Burlington Magazine. 113 (815): 79–89. ISSN 0007-6287. JSTOR 876556.
  2. ^ Chaussard, Pierre-Jean-Baptiste (1808). Le Pausanias français, ou Description du salon de 1806: état des arts du dessin en France à l'ouverture du XIXe siècle (in French). F. Buisson. p. 139.
  3. ^ wpengine (2022-07-05). "Professional Women Artists in London and Paris, 1760–1830". Art Herstory. Retrieved 2023-11-29.
  4. ^ Naef, Hans; Hottinger-Mackie, Mary D. (1956). "Ingres' Portrait Drawings of English Sitters in Rome". The Burlington Magazine. 98 (645): 427–435. ISSN 0007-6287. JSTOR 871962.
  5. ^ Ribeiro, Aileen (1999). Ingres in Fashion: Representations of Dress and Appearance in Ingres's Images of Women. Yale University Press. pp. 49–51. ISBN 978-0-300-27236-9.
  6. ^ Barbier, Auguste (1883). Souvenirs personnels et silhouettes contemporaines (in French). E. Dentu. p. 273.
  7. ^ Chaussard (1808), p. 139; trans. Naef (1971), p. 80.
  8. ^ Naef (1971), p. 86.