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Before she was 24, Gillies was commissioned to paint a miniature of [[William Wordsworth]], and stayed at [[Rydal Mount]] for several weeks. She painted also a portrait of [[Anne Marsh]] the novelist; and for many successive years contributed portraits to the exhibitions of the [[Royal Academy]].<ref name="DNB"/> Gillies has three oil paintings in British national collections in Aberystwyth, Nottingham and the National Portrait Gallery.<ref name=yp>{{Art UK bio}}</ref>
Gillies' portrait of [[Charles Dickens]], painted during the period when he was writing ''[[A Christmas Carol]]'', was exhibited in the [[Royal Academy of Arts]]' 1844 summer exhibition.<ref name="Brown">{{cite news |last1=Brown |first1=Mark |title=Lost portrait of Charles Dickens turns up at auction in South Africa |url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2018/nov/21/lost-portrait-charles-dickens-turns-up-auction-south-africa-margaret-gillies |accessdate=22 November 2018 |work=[[The Guardian]] |date=21 November 2018 |language=en}}</ref> After viewing it three, [[Elizabeth Barrett Browning]] said that it showed Dickens with "the dust and mud of humanity about him, notwithstanding those eagle eyes".<ref name="Brown" /> A simplified form was used as the frontispiece of a book, ''A New Spirit of the Age'', in the same year.
In 1852 Gillies was elected an associate of the [[Old Society of Painters in Water-colours]], and was a contributor to its exhibitions for the rest of her life. Her exhibited works included:<ref name="DNB"/>
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