# Portrait of the Artist's Husband Charles Beale [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [BEALE, Mary]() - Date: 1651-1700 - Technique: Oil on canvas, 125 x 100 cm ## Commentary Portrait of the Artist's Husband Charles Beale c. 1681 Oil on canvas, 125 x 100 cm Private collection This painting represents a three quarter length portrait of the artist's husband Charles Beale \(1632-1705\), dressed in an open-necked shirt with brown gown, his left hand resting on a large folio book which stands on a table. Charles Beale assumed responsibility for organizing his wife's commissions and payments. He recorded these details and much other incidental information in a series of notebooks, which provide an exceptional amount of documentation for an artist of this period. The canvas is contained in a fine 17th-century carved and gilded frame. ## Related artworks - [Study of a Head]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()