An Unknown Lady
Enoch Seeman the younger (Gdańsk c.1694 – London 1744)
Category
Art / Oil paintings
Date
1700 - 1745
Materials
Oil on canvas
Measurements
1245 x 991 mm (49 x 39 in)
Place of origin
England
Order this imageCollection
Kedleston Hall, Derbyshire
NT 108927
Summary
Oil painting on canvas, An Unknown Lady by Enoch Seeman the younger (Gdańsk c.1694 – London 1744). A three-quarter-length portrait of a young lady, turned slightly to the right, gazing at the spectator, wearing a white dress, hands crossed at waist, left hand holding right wrist; dressed in white, with large stiff lace collar, pendant pearl brooch at centre of neckline, two-strand pearl necklace, on right ear she has a pendant pearl ear-ring, hands crossed, by a table with an orange tree. One of the earliest examples of a sitter being shown in a 'Vandyck' dress.
Provenance
Bought with part of the contents of Kedleston with the aid of the National Heritage Memorial Fund in 1987 when the house and park were given to the National Trust by Francis Curzon, 3rd Viscount Scarsdale (1924-2000)
Credit line
Kedleston Hall, The Scarsdale Collection (acquired with the help of the National Heritage Memorial Fund and transferred to The National Trust in 1987)
Makers and roles
Enoch Seeman the younger (Gdańsk c.1694 – London 1744), artist previously catalogued as attributed to Nathaniel Hone the elder, RA (Dublin 1718 – London 1784), artist