Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900/Bell, Maria
BELL, Lady MARIA (d. 1825), amateur painter, the daughter of an architect named Hamilton, was the pupil of her brother William Hamilton, R.A., and received some instruction from Sir Joshua Reynolds, whose pictures she copied with much skill. She copied likewise the works of Rubens at Carlton House, among which was a 'Holy Family,' which was highly commended. between the years 1809 and 1824 she exhibited at the Royal Academy and elsewhere several figure-subjects and portraits, among the latter being in 1816 those of Sir Matthew Wood, Bart., lord mayor of London, and of her husband. She also practised modelling, and exhibited two busts at the Royal Academy in 1819. She married Sir Thomas Bell, sheriff of London, who was knighted in 1816, and died in 1824, and whose portrait was engraved by William Dickinson after a painting by her. Lady Bell died in Dean Street, Soho, on 9 March 1825. Her own portrait has been engraved by Edward Scriven from a miniature by W. S. Lethbridge.
[Gent. Mag. 1825, i. 570; Redgrave's Dictionary of Artists, 1878.]
Dictionary of National Biography, Errata (1904), p.22
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