Mary English (1789–1846), Née Ballard, Later Greenup

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The adventurer and businesswoman Mary English first travelled to South America in 1819, when her husband raised a British legion of mercenaries to fight under Simón Bolívar. Mary tended sick soldiers, reviewed the troops and became friends with Bolívar. After her husband's death in September 1819, she stayed in South America, and her letters to England were reported in the London Weekly Dispatch and the Morning Chronicle. She visited England in 1822 but soon returned to Colombia as the commercial representative of the bankers Herring and Richardson. In 1827 she married William Greenup and bought a cacao plantation.

National Portrait Gallery, London

London

Title

Mary English (1789–1846), Née Ballard, Later Greenup

Date

1818

Medium

oil on canvas

Measurements

H 76 x W 63 cm

Accession number

NPG 6964

Acquisition method

given by members of the sitter's family in memory of Drusilla Scott, the sitter's great-great-granddaughter, 2013

Work type

Painting

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