MEDIA Show Media Credit: the Virginia Historical SocietyOriginal Author: Mary BealeCreated: Second half of the seventeenth centuryMedium: Oil on canvasPublisher: Virginia Historical SocietySir Edmund AndrosSir Edmund Andros, governor of Virginia from 1692 until 1698, is portrayed in this painting by Mary Beale. One of the first professional women painters in England, Beale was a popular portraitist in the mid-to-late-seventeenth century.FEATURED INJames Blair (ca. 1655–1743)Sir Edmund Andros (1637–ca. 1714)