Amelia Curran (painter)
Amelia Curran | |
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| Born | 1775 Ireland |
| Died | 1847 (aged 71–72) Rome, Italy |
| Nationality | Irish |
| Known for | Portrait painting |
Amelia Curran (1775 – 1847) was an Irish portrait painter.
Biography
Amelia Curran was the eldest child of the barrister and wit John Philpot Curran and his wife Sarah Creagh.[2] Her sister Sarah Curran was the fiancée of Robert Emmet. Amelia was a member of the Church of Ireland for the early part of her life. In 1810, through her father, she met novelist William Godwin [3] and Aaron Burr, the American politician. Soon after, she met her lifelong friend, Percy Bysshe Shelley.
In 1812 Percy Shelley traveled to Ireland to campaign against the injustices done there under British rule and was introduced to her father.[3][4]
Curran also painted a portrait of Shelley's three-and-a-half-year-old son William (called "Willmouse") in Rome, just before Willmouse's death from malaria in 1819.[3][5]
She later traveled to Rome and built up a close friendship and correspondence with Shelley's second wife
Curran painted Shelley several times.
Curran also painted a portrait of Claire Clairmont[12] and made copies of several Renaissance Madonnas. During the same spring of 1819 when painting William Shelley, Curran received Percy and Mary Shelley for individual portraits along with Clairmont.[3] Curran knew Mary and Clair as the stepdaughters of William Godwin since their childhood, from visiting their London home with her father.[3][13]
Amelia Curran died in 1847 in Rome, and was cremated to rest in the Church of St. Isidore. The future Cardinal Newman presided at her funeral Mass.
References
- ^ a b c Curran, Amelia. "Percy Bysshe Shelley | Art UK". www.artuk.org. Retrieved 24 October 2019.
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- ^ a b c d e Polack 2011, p. 25.
- ^ Bieri & Shelley 2008, p. 196.
- ^ Bieri & Shelley 2008, p. 455.
- ^ a b Amelia Curran in the National Portrait Gallery, London
- ^ Clint, Alfred. "Percy Bysshe Shelley". www.npg.org.uk. National Portrait Gallery. Retrieved 24 October 2019.
- ^ "Percy Bysshe Shelley". www.npg.org.uk. William Holl Sr, or William Holl Jr. National Portrait Gallery. Retrieved 24 October 2019.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: others (link) - ^ Finden, William. "Percy Bysshe Shelley". www.npg.org.uk. Black & Armstrong (pub), 1819; stipple and line engraving. National Portrait Gallery. Retrieved 24 October 2019.
- ^ "Newstead Abbey | Discover Artworks". Art UK. Retrieved 24 October 2019.
- ^ Women Painters of the World on Project Gutenberg
- ^ Curran, Amelia. "Claire Clairmont (1798–1879) | Art UK". www.artuk.org. Retrieved 24 October 2019.
- ^ Sunstein 1989, p. 58.
Bibliography
- Bieri, James; Shelley, Percy Bysshe (2008). Percy Bysshe Shelley: a biography. Baltimore: OCLC 487612237.
- Polack, Fiona (2011). "Amelia Curran's Newfoundland Painting". Keats-Shelley Journal. 60: 25–29. JSTOR 41409553.
- Sunstein, Emily W (1989). Mary Shelley: romance and reality. Boston, Mass.; Toronto; London: OCLC 463438395.
Further reading
- Walter Shaw Sparrow (ed.) (1901) Women painters of the world. From the time of Caterina Vigri, 1413–1463 to Rosa Bonheur and the present day. London : Hodder. OCLC 946226645
External links
Media related to Amelia Curran at Wikimedia Commons
- 2 artworks by or after Amelia Curran at the Art UK site
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