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Born Mary Granville, she first married at the age of 16 to Alexander Pendarves, a wealthy land-owner more than forty years her senior, and then, more happily, to Patrick Delany, Dean of Down. She was widowed for the second time at the age of 68 and went to live for six months of each year with her friend the dowager Duchess of Portland at Bulstrode Park, Buckinghamshire.
Mary Delany nació en Coulston, Wiltshire. 1 Era hija del coronel Bernard Granville y Mary Westcombe, ambos leales partidarios conservadores de la Corona Stuart, y sobrina de George Granville, primer barón Lansdowne, hermano de su padre. Tenía dos hermanos, el mayor, Bernard (1699), conocido como Bunny; Bevil, nacido entre 1702 y 1706, y una ...
26 de ago. de 2022 · Mary Delany (née Granville, 1700–88) is best known for her cut-paper illustrations of plants - she completed nearly 1,000 of these detailed botanical pictures. Widowed after an unhappy first marriage, she lived in London, attended court, and was a favourite of George III and Queen Charlotte.
Died: 15 April 1788. Country most active: United Kingdom. Also known as: Mary Granville, Mary Pendarves. Delany, Mary (1700–88), artist, was born 14 May 1700 in Coulston, Wiltshire, England, elder daughter and second among four children of Col. Bernard Granville and his wife Mary, daughter of Sir Martin Westcomb, former consul at Cadiz.
Mary Delany, verw. Mary Pendarves, geb. Mary Granville (* 14. Mai 1700 in Coulston; † 15. April 1788 in Windsor) war eine englische Malerin, Gartenkünstlerin und Briefschreiberin. Leben und Wirken. Mary Granville wurde in einem kleinen Landhaus in Wiltshire geboren, als Tochter von Bernard Granville, Enkel des bekannten Sir Bevil Granville.
Mary Delany née Granville, née le 14 mai 1700 et morte le 15 avril 1788, est une illustratrice, femme de lettres et bas bleus anglaise. Elle est connue pour son éloquence et ses tableaux de mosaïques de papier.
Mary Delany (1700-1788) was born Mary Granville and educated so as to become a Lady of the Bedchamber. However, at the age of seventeen, she was married to Alexander Pendarves who took her to his solitary castle of Roscrow in Cornwall where she was kept out of most sociable meetings. In the last years of her husband’s life, she was back in ...
