William Beechey

video still of Xavier Salomon and painting of woman
Cocktails with a Curator™: Beechey's 'Elizabeth Sophia Baillie'

In this week’s episode of Cocktails with a Curator™, Deputy Director and Peter Jay Sharp Chief Curator Xavier F. Salomon enjoys a Great Maiden’s Blush cocktail while discussing a 1795 portrait of Elizabeth Sophia Baillie (née de Vismes) by Sir William Beechey. A work of mysterious origin—and thought for a century to be by the English portraitist John Hoppner—it was only recently attributed to Beechey by Eloise Owens during her time as a curatorial assistant at the Frick.