Elizabeth or Elisabeth Harvey (née Norton, married name de Pulley, 1778 – 12 August 1858) was an English artist known for Malvina Lamenting the Death of Oscar and for portraits of Jacques-Henri Bernardine de Saint-Pierre and his family.
Hans Naef has established, on the basis of letters from Jean-Francois Ducis, that Elisabeth was born out of wedlock to Elizabeth Harvey, née Hill, and William Norton, 2nd Baron Grantley.[1] She studied painting in Italy, where she lived for "five or six years," and then lived in Paris with her mother and elder sister, Henrietta (1774 – 1852).[2]
Under the name Elisabeth Harvey, she exhibited paintings at the Paris Salon between 1802 and 1812, including Malvina Lamenting the Death of Oscar based on a poem by James Macpherson,[3] her Portrait of Bernardin de Saint-Pierre and his family, which survives in a copy by Paul-Michel-Claude Carpentier, and a lost painting titled Edwy and Elgiva, among other portraits.
In 1804, the Harvey sisters were the subject of a sketch by Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres.[4] Either Elisabeth or Henrietta was the subject of another Ingres sketch, Miss Harvey Sketching, in 1807.[5] The memoirs of Auguste Barbier indicates that the friendship between Ingres, the Harveys, and the family of Bernardine de Saint-Pierre continued into the 1840s.[6]
The family was described on the occasion of the 1806 Salon: "…a mother whose intelligence, amiability and enlightened taste in literature and the arts are well known, and alongside a sister who has had some success in the same field. The elder Miss Harvey [Henrietta] has acquired a particular skill in painting in sepia on ivory, from classical models or from the best works of the great masters."[7] Henrietta, however, did not exhibit in the Salon.
On 28 January 1818 she married Etienne-Babolin Randon de Pully, and they had a son, William-Enguerran. In 1850 she was living in the Château de Puygirault. She died there in 1858.[8]