Patience Lovell Wright
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Making sculptures began as a hobby, but following her husband\u00e2\u0080\u0099s death in 1769, Wright embarked on a professional career to support her five children. After a fire destroyed most of her work, she relocated to England in 1772. Well-connected members of society flocked to her studio, and her exhibitions attracted enthusiastic admirers, including King George III."}, {"label": "Exhibition Label", "content": "As tensions with the colonies intensified during the spring of 1775, Wright offered to send intelligence back home, observing, \u00e2\u0080\u009cWomen are always useful in grand Events.\u00e2\u0080\u009d She fundraised for American prisoners of war and hosted pro-revolutionary meetings in her studio. Robert Edge Pine, an English artist sympathetic to the colonial cause, is believed to have painted this portrait shortly before immigrating to the United States."}, {"label": "Exhibition Label", "content": "Nacida en Oyster Bay, Nueva York"}, {"label": "Exhibition Label", "content": "Una de las primeras escultoras profesionales de la \u00c3\u00a9poca colonial, Patience Wright model\u00c3\u00b3 retratos de personalidades en cera te\u00c3\u00b1ida y los expuso con \u00c3\u00a9xito en Filadelfia y Nueva York. Se inici\u00c3\u00b3 en la escultura como pasatiempo, pero al morir su esposo en 1769 emprendi\u00c3\u00b3 una carrera profesional para mantener a sus cinco hijos. Tras un fuego que destruy\u00c3\u00b3 casi todas sus obras, se radic\u00c3\u00b3 en Inglaterra en 1772. Muchos miembros de la alta sociedad acud\u00c3\u00adan a su estudio y sus exposiciones atra\u00c3\u00adan admiradores entusiastas, incluido el rey Jorge III."}, {"label": "Exhibition Label", "content": "En la primavera de 1775, mientras escalaban las tensiones con las colonias, Wright se ofreci\u00c3\u00b3 a enviar informaci\u00c3\u00b3n secreta a Am\u00c3\u00a9rica, observando que \u00e2\u0080\u009clas mujeres siempre son \u00c3\u00batiles en los grandes eventos\u00e2\u0080\u009d. Recaud\u00c3\u00b3 dinero para los prisioneros de guerra americanos y organiz\u00c3\u00b3 reuniones en pro de la revoluci\u00c3\u00b3n en su taller. Se dice que Robert Edge Pine, artista ingl\u00c3\u00a9s simpatizante de la causa de las colonias, pint\u00c3\u00b3 este retrato poco antes de inmigrar a Estados Unidos."}, {"label": "Provenance", "content": "Kelly, Donald, 1956: Kelly, of Boston, purchased portrait in an antique shop John Brown (1774-1832)* of Philadelphia, sold by Parke- Bernet, lot 194; Sold by Mrs. George Croft through C.P. Vosburgh to William Jacobs, (Jacobs owned painting in 1935 when Hoppner attribution was given it by C.C. Cunningham, Director, Boston Museum); Sold Parke-Bernet Jan 26, 1946** as from collection of John Brown; Supposedly owned by John Hoppner until 1810. *Probably John Coats Browne, Pres. Kensington Bank, Philadelphia. **Also listed as sold on Jan 16, 1945, (see manual file)"}, {"label": "Provenance", "content": "Purchase"}, {"label": "Provenance", "content": "On loan to NPG from private collection for exhibition \"Return to Albion\" prior to NPG ownership."}], "creditLine": [{"label": "Credit Line", "content": "National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution"}], "name": [{"label": "Attribution", "content": "Robert Edge Pine, c. 1730 - 1788"}, {"label": "Former attribution", "content": "John Hoppner, 1758 - 1810"}, {"label": "Sitter", "content": "Patience Lovell Wright, 1725 - 23 Mar 1786"}], "topic": [{"label": "Topic", "content": "Patience Lovell Wright: Female"}, {"label": "Topic", "content": "Patience Lovell Wright: Visual Arts\\Artist\\Sculptor"}, {"label": "Topic", "content": "Patience Lovell Wright: Military and Intelligence\\Intelligence agent\\Spy"}, {"label": "Topic", "content": "Patience Lovell Wright: Visual Arts\\Artist\\Sculptor\\Wax modeler"}, {"label": "Topic", "content": "Portrait"}], "physicalDescription": [{"label": "Medium", "content": "Oil on canvas"}, {"label": "Dimensions", "content": "Sight: 125.7 x 100.2cm (49 1/2 x 39 7/16\")"}, {"label": "Dimensions", "content": "Frame: 147 x 121 x 7.9cm (57 7/8 x 47 5/8 x 3 1/8\")"}], "dataSource": [{"label": "Data Source", "content": "National Portrait Gallery"}], "objectRights": [{"label": "Restrictions & Rights", "content": "CC0"}], "objectType": [{"label": "Type", "content": "Painting"}]}}, "url": "edanmdm:npg_NPG.86.168", "hash": "a2e8b20ee9e8bb0ccbd2370fda4556cfede19ffc", "docSignature": "5a792e56ef08033d6757dab9bb104b09", "timestamp": 1666256170, "lastTimeUpdated": 1666256116, "title": "Patience Lovell Wright"}