An Unknown Lady
British (English) School
Category
Art / Oil paintings
Date
circa 1700
Materials
Oil on canvas
Measurements
1689 x 1105 mm (66 1/2 x 43 1/2 in)
Place of origin
England
Order this imageCollection
Hardwick Hall, Derbyshire
NT 1129247
Summary
Oil painting on canvas, An Unknown Lady, British (English) School, circa 1700. A three-quarter-length portrait of a lady, seated beneath a classical porch, almost facing, wearing an amber coloured dress, holding some roses in her right hand, her left resting on an urn; a temple in the background, left.
Provenance
In Lady Louisa Cavendish 1860 catalogue of Hardwick Hall; thence by inheritance until, following the death of Edward William Spencer Cavendish, 10th Duke of Devonshire (1895 - 1950), Hardwick Hall and its contents were accepted by HM Treasury in part payment of death duties and transferred to the National Trust, in 1959
Credit line
Hardwick Hall, The Devonshire Collection (National Trust)
Makers and roles
British (English) School, artist previously catalogued as attributed to Sir Godfrey Kneller (Lübeck 1646 - London 1723), artist