Charlotte Mercier
Charlotte Mercier (1738–1762) was a French painter and printmaker active in London. Mercier, born in London, was the daughter of the artist Philippe Mercier, with whom she studied; a 1738 record of her baptism records her parents' names as Philip and Dorothy. She is said to have turned to a dissolute life after some early success as an artist.
Charlotte Mercier
James McArdell según Philippe Mercier · http: sText=Charlotte+Mercier rNo=1 · Public domain
- Born
- Charlotte Mercier was born in 1738. · London.
- Died
- Charlotte Mercier died on 21 February 1762. · London.
- Nationality
- France.
- Occupation
- painter and copper engraver.
- Fields
- portrait.
- Languages
- French.
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Charlotte Mercier (1738–1762) was a French painter and printmaker active in London. Mercier, born in London, was the daughter of the artist Philippe Mercier, with whom she studied; a 1738 record of her baptism records her parents' names as Philip and Dorothy. She is said to have turned to a dissolute life after some early success as an artist.
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France
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London
Place
Pencil sketch by George Henry Harlow, 1814, http://www.npg.org.uk/collections/search/largerimage.php?mkey=mw05495
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London
Place
Pencil sketch by George Henry Harlow, 1814, http://www.npg.org.uk/collections/search/largerimage.php?mkey=mw05495
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Identity
An appeal from her mother was read to the Society of Artists in 1761, but she nevertheless died in the St James Workhouse in Westminster the following year. Two portraits, of Madeleine Marie Agathe Renée de la Bigotière de Perchambault and of Olivier-Joseph Le Gonidec, are in the collection of the National Museum of Women in the Arts; both are pastels, and are dated 1757. A mezzotint after her father, Miss Playing with Cup and Ball, is owned by the National Portrait Gallery, London, which also owns a mezzotint portrait of her, after another of her father's works, by James Macardell, published in 1756. Mercier is sometimes confused with the artist Claude Mercier, also active as a pastellist.
Charlotte Mercier is recorded with the occupation copper engraver. Recorded as a citizen of France. Classed in the genre portrait.
Life and career
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Life and career
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1738
Charlotte Mercier was born on 1 January 1738.
1762
Charlotte Mercier died on 21 February 1762.
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Charlotte Mercier was born in London.
Birthplace
Charlotte Mercier died in London.
Deathplace
London.
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authority record
- Wikidata, structured authority record Q518755: Charlotte Mercier
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- “Charlotte Mercier”, English Wikipedia, consulted as further reading
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