Patience Lovell Wright

Timeline

Born in Oyster Bay, New York.
Moved to Philadelphia without her family.
Married Joseph Wright, a barrel maker.
Death of her husband. Wright began producing sculpture portraits to support herself and her four children.
Began to exhibit her waxworks in Philadelphia and New York, working closely with her sister Rachel Lovell Wells (1735–1796).
A fire at her home in New York City destroyed all her work.
Arrived in London and was commissioned to make political portraits, including William Pitt the Elder and Benjamin Franklin.
Wright’s sympathies with the American revolutionaries caused her to fall out of favor with the court of King George III.
Marriage of her daughter Phoebe to John Hoppner. Wright moved to Paris.
Returned to London and began work on portrait bust of George Washington.
Died in London following a fall she took after a visit with John Adams, then the American ambassador to England.