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Line 44: During the 1830s and 1840s Gillies was a career portrait artist, and for many successive years contributed portraits to the exhibitions of the [[Royal Academy]].<ref name="DNB"/><ref name="Vic">{{cite book \|last1=Orr \|first1=Clarissa Campbell \|title=Women in the Victorian Art World \|date=1995 \|publisher=Manchester University Press \|isbn=9780719041228 \|page=61 \|url=https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=2y68AAAAIAAJ&pg=PA61 \|language=en}}</ref> Her subjects included feminist figures: [[Mary Leman Grimstone]], [[Mary Howitt]] and her daughter Anna Mary Howitt, [[Harriet Martineau]] of the ''Monthly Repository'' group.<ref name="Vic"/><ref>{{cite book \|last1=Peart \|first1=Sandra J. \|title=Hayek On Mill: The Mill-Taylor Friendship and Related Writings \|date=2015 \|publisher=Routledge \|isbn=9781317562344 \|page=25 \|url=https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=tJusBwAAQBAJ&pg=PA25 \|language=en}}</ref> She also painted [[Anne Marsh]] the novelist.<ref name="DNB"/> Her portrait of [[Charles Dickens]], painted during the period he was writing ''[[A Christmas Carol]]'', was in the [[Royal Academy of ~~Ar'ts~~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 }}</ref> After viewing it there, [[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. The painting's location was unknown, from later in Gillies lifetime, when she was unable to trace it, until it was rediscovered in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa, and acquired and restored by the art dealer [[Philip Mould]] in 2018.<ref name="Mould">{{cite web \|title=Charles Dickens: The Lost Portrait Now Open \|url=https://philipmould.com/gallery/edit/charles-dickens-the-lost-portrait-open \|publisher=[[Philip Mould]] \|accessdate=22 November 2018 \|date=8 November 2018}}</ref> ===Watercolourist===

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