MARY, distinguished for her skill in painting, was the daughter of Mr Craddock, minister of Walton-upon-Thames, and is said to have learned the rudiments of the art from Sir Peter Lely. She painted in oil, in water-colours, and in crayons, and was greatly employed. Her portraits were executed in the Italian style, which she acquired by copying pictures and drawings from Sir Peter Lely's and the royal collections. She also imitated Vandyk. Her paintings have a good deal of nature, but the colouring is stiff and heavy. Her master, says 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 December 1697, aged sixty-five.