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Lady Maria Bell (''née'' Hamilton; 26 December 17559 March 1825) was an English
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painter (in oils) and sculptor.


Life

Maria Hamilton was born in
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, the daughter of William Hamilton, an architect from a Scottish family, and his wife Sarah. She was the pupil of her brother William Hamilton RA. She also received instruction from Sir
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, whose pictures she copied with much skill. She copied likewise the works of
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at
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, including the 'Holy Family,' which was highly commended. Around 1808 she married Sir Thomas Bell (1751-1824), leather merchant and later
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, who was knighted in 1816, and whose portrait was engraved by William Dickinson after a painting by her. Between the years 1809 and 1824 she exhibited at the
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and elsewhere several figure-subjects and portraits, among the latter being in 1816 those of Sir Matthew Wood, 1st Baronet, lord mayor of London, and of her husband. She also practised modelling, exhibiting two busts at the Royal Academy in 1819. Lady Bell died in
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on
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, in 1825. Her own portrait was engraved by Edward Scriven from a miniature by
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.


See also

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* Henrietta Ward


References

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