Hartley, Observations on Man, 1791

Redgrave, A dictionary of artists of the English school: painters, sculptors, architects, engravers and ornamentists, London (seconda ed.) 1878 (segnalata come “C. J. Blake”)

Chaloner Smith, British Mezzotinto Portraits, 1878, I, p. 63 (John Chaloner Smith, 'British Mezzotinto portraits from the introduction of the art to the early part of the present century', 4 vols, 1883) 

Le Blanc, Manuel, I

C. Clayton, English Female Artists, I, London 1876, pp. 370, 375 (come “Miss Catherine Blake”)

Frankau, J. R. Smith, 1902, p. 213

W. B., in U. Thieme - F. Becker, Allgemeines Lexicon der Bildenden Künstler, von der Antike bis zur Gegenwart, IV, Leipzig 1910, p. 84

Petteys, Dictionary of Women Artists. An international dictionary of women artists born before 1900, Boston 1985, p. 72 (ad vocem “Blake, C. J.”)

Pittrice e disegnatrice amatoriale inglese, incisora attiva nella seconda metà del XVIII secolo.

Nipote (di zio) di Sir Francis Blake Delaval.

Si cinoscono alcune opere: Ritratto di Sir Francis Blake Delaval, incisione all’acquaforte, datata “Febr. 2. 1775”; Autoritratto, dipinto e incisione, “painted & engraved C. S. Blake 1775”; Ritratto di James Sibbald, Gardener to Thomas Delaval Esq. at Clapham, inciso da J. R. Smith (il foglio reca la scritta “Painted by a young Lady. Price 10/6. Publish’d 20 March 1775 by J. R. Smith Batemans Buildings, Soho”).

LONDRA

British Museum

Ritratto di Francis Blake Delaval, acquaforte, firmato e datato “C.S. Blake pinxit / e fecit acqua forte / feby 2d 1775” (1852, 1211.140)

Autoritratto, mezzotinto, firmato e datato “painted engraved C. S. Blake 1775” (1902, 1011.211)

Ritratto di James Sibbald, mezzotinto di John Raphael Smith da C S Blake, datato “Painted by a young lady”, “Publishd 20th March 1775 by J.R. Smith Batemans buildings Soho” (1902, 1011.5049 e 1851,0308.632, sul quale Horace Walpole aggiunge a penna “James Sibbard”)