MARY**, distinguished for her skill in painting, was the daughter of Mr Craddock, minister of Walton-upon-Thames, and learned the rudiments of her art from Sir Peter Lely. She painted in oil, in water-colours, and in crayons, and had much business. Her portraits were executed in the Italiar style, which she acquired by copying pictures and drawings from Sir Peter Lely's and the royal collections. Her master, says Mr Walpole, was supposed to have had a tender attachment to her, but as he was reserved in communicating to her all the resources of his pencil, it was probably a gallant rather than a successful one. Mrs Beale died in Pall Mall on the 28th of December 1697, aged sixty-five. Her paintings have a good deal of nature, but the colouring is stiff and heavy.