Anne, Lady Beechey (born Anne Phyllis Jessop; 3 August 1764 – 14 December 1833) was a British portrait painter.

Life

Beechey was born in

Thorpe St Andrew Thorpe St Andrew is a town and civil parish in the Broadland district of Norfolk, England. It is situated on the River Yare, two miles east of the centre of Norwich, and is outside the boundary of the city. The civil parish has an area of and ...

near Norfolk in 1764 as Anne Phyllis Jessop. She developed a successful portrait business and she met

William Beechey Sir William Beechey (12 December 175328 January 1839) was an English portraitist during the golden age of British painting. Early life Beechey was born at Burford, Oxfordshire, on 12 December 1753, the son of William Beechey, a solicitor, an ...

who was also a painter. William was in Norwich between 1782 and 1787 and it presumed they met at that time. In 1787 she exhibited works at the

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as "Miss A. P. Jessup"(sic). William was a widower in 1793 with five children after his first wife, Mary Ann, died. Beechey and Jessop wed in 1793.John Wilson, ‘Beechey, Sir William (1753–1839)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, Oct 200
accessed 2 May 2017
/ref> She continued to exhibit at the Royal Academy from 1795 to 1805. She used the name Mrs Beechey until 1799, when she became Lady Beechey.

Children

#Anne Phyllis Beechey (1794–December 1883) #

Frederick William Beechey Frederick William Beechey (17 February 1796 – 29 November 1856) was an English naval officer, artist, explorer, hydrographer and writer. Life and career He was the son of two painters, Sir William Beechey, RA and his second wife, Anne ...

(1796–1856), Royal Navy captain, geographer, politician #

George Duncan Beechey George Duncan Beechey (1798 – 6 December 1852) was an English portrait painter. Life and career Beechey was the fourth child of two painters, Sir William Beechey and his second wife, Anne Jessop.John Wilson, ‘Beechey, Sir William (1753–1 ...

(1798–1852), painter # Anna Dodsworth Beechey (born 1800)

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''Portrait of Lady Beechey and Her Child''
/ref> #William Nelson Beechey (3 August 1801 – 1 August 1878) #Charlotte Earl Beechey (3 August 1801 – 28 November 1849) #Alfred Beechey (born 24 June 1803) #

St. Vincent Beechey St. Vincent Beechey (7 August 1806 – 19 August 1899) was a nineteenth-century vicar of Fleetwood and Thornton-Cleveleys, Lancashire, and later of Worsley, Lancashire. He is known for founding Rossall School at Fleetwood in 1844, and he was ...

(1806–1899), clergyman #

Richard Brydges Beechey Richard Brydges Beechey (1808 – 14 March 1895) was an Anglo-Irish painter and admiral in the Royal Navy. Early life Beechey was born to two British painters, Sir William Beechey and his second wife, Anne Jessop.John Wilson, ‘Beechey, ...

(1808–1895), painter and admiral in the British navy #Jane Henrietta Frances Beechy (born 19 December 1809) Their children included a high number of notable painters. Beechey died in

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