
Mary Beale
Portrait of Zachary Cradock (1632/3-95)
Oil on canvas
30 x 25 inches (76.2 x 65 cm)
Philip Mould & Co.
To view all current artworks for sale visit philipmould.com Mary Beale was the first professional female English artist. She was a prolific painter, mainly in the style of Lely, and...
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Zachary Cradock, a clergyman from an early age, was reckoned to be one of the ablest orators of his generation. He enjoyed a successful career after graduation from Cambridge in 1647, being variously chaplain to Charles II, the English merchant community in Portugal, King’s College Cambridge, as well as preacher to Gray’s Inn. In 1671 he was nominated a fellow of Eton College, and a decade later was elected as Provost, or head of the school’s governing body, which post he held until his death in 1695. He was almost certainly related to Mary Beale, for she was the daughter of John Cradock, the rector Barrow in Suffolk, while Zachary Cradock was the son of Samuel Cradock, Vicar of Greetham in nearby Rutland.
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