Joan Carlile or Carlell or Carliell (c. 1606–1679), was an English

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. She was one of the first British women known to practise painting professionally. Before Carlile, known professional female painters working in Britain were born elsewhere in Europe, principally the

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Biography

Joan Carlile was born as Joan Palmer, the daughter of William Palmer, an official in the

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and his wife, Mary. Carlile copied the works of

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and reproduced them in

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. She was also an accomplished painter in her own right. In July 1626 she married Lodowick Carlell or Carlile, Gentleman of the Bows to

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and a poet and dramatist, who, as keeper/deputy ranger at

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during the

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period, had accommodation at Petersham Lodge, where they lived from 1637 to 1663. The couple moved to

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in 1654 but returned to Petersham two years later after the restoration of the monarchy, when Lodowick was given the post of "Keeper of the house or Lodge and the Walk at Petersham". They returned to London in 1665. Lodowick died in 1675 and was buried in the churchyard of

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(which was then in

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and is now in the

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). Joan, who was then living in the

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, died in 1679, and was buried beside her husband on 27 February. They had three children, Penelope (who married John Fisher, a lawyer of the

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in 1657), James (who was married to Ellen; they had two sons, James and Lodowick) and Edmund.

Works

Carlile's portrait ''

Lady Dorothy Browne and Sir Thomas Browne ''Lady Dorothy Browne and Sir Thomas Browne'' is an oil on panel painting attributed to the English artist Joan Carlile, and probably completed between 1641 and 1650. The painting depicts English physician Thomas Browne and his wife Dorothy. Sub ...

'' is held at London's National Portrait Gallery. The National Portrait Gallery's portrait of Sir Thomas Browne is also attributed to her. In 2016, the

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acquired Carlile's ''Portrait of an Unknown Lady'' which she painted between 1650 and 1655. A painting from circa 1648 of Elizabeth Murray, Countess of Dysart with her husband and sister has been attributed to Carlile and is held by the

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. It is on display at

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. Another painting of the Countess of Dysart, attributed to Carlile, is held by the

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Trust. ''The Carlile Family with Sir Justinian Isham in Richmond Park'' is held at

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. Also known as ''A Stag Hunt'', ''The Stag Hunt'', or ''Stag hunt in Richmond Park'', it was exhibited at the

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in 1972. Her full-length portrait of a lady, believed be Lady Anne Wentworth, in a white dress and a purple mantle, is in a private collection. A miniature portrait, attributed to Carlile, described as ''A Lady, Wearing White Dress With Brooch At Her Corsage...'', was auctioned by

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in London in 2005.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Carlile, Joan 1600s births 1679 deaths 17th-century English painters 17th-century English women 17th century in London 17th-century women artists British Baroque painters Burials at St Peter's, Petersham English portrait painters English women painters Miniature painting Painters from London Petersham, London People who have lived in Richmond Park Year of birth uncertain

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