Elizabeth Carmichael

Mrs. Elizabeth Carmichael was an English portraitist active in London between 1768 and 1820.

For the trans woman auto design con-artist also known by this name, see Geraldine Elizabeth Carmichael.
Elizabeth Carmichael


Professor John Young; 1750ish-1820 by Elizabeth Carmichael

Life

Carmichael is known to have worked in oil and pastel. She exhibited at the Free Society in 1768; the Society of Artists of Great Britain from 1769 until 1771; and the Royal Academy from 1777 until 1789. Twice when exhibiting in the 1760s she gave an address in Newport Street;[1] she also lived in Bentinck Street during her career.[2] She is likely the artist to whom Benjamin West gave permission, in an 1818 letter, to copy his sketches. A half-length portrait by Carmichael of John Young of the University of Glasgow is today in the collection of the Hunterian Art Gallery.[1][3]

References
  1. Profile at the Dictionary of Pastellists Before 1800.
  2. George Kearsley (1778). Kearsly's Gentleman and Tradesman's Pocket Ledger: For the Year 1778: ... G. Kearsly, and sold. pp. 151–.
  3. Christopher Wright; Catherine May Gordon (2006). British and Irish Paintings in Public Collections: An Index of British and Irish Oil Paintings by Artists Born Before 1870 in Public and Institutional Collections in the United Kingdom and Ireland. Yale University Press. pp. 229–. ISBN 0-300-11730-2.


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