Jane Trevor, Lady Myddelton
British (English) School
Category
Art / Oil paintings
Date
circa 1670
Materials
Oil on canvas
Measurements
1010 x 905 x 10 mm
Place of origin
Great Britain
Order this imageCollection
Chirk Castle, Wrexham
NT 1171112
Summary
Oil painting on canvas, Jane Trevor, Lady Myddelton, English School, circa 1670. A painted bust-length oval portrait of Jane Trevor, the second wife of Thomas Myddelton III, as a widow. Formerly catalogued as a portrait of Frances Chaloner, Lady Fairfax.
Full description
Associated with Chirk Castle
Provenance
Probably commissioned, circa 1670, posthumously, by Mary Napier, second wife and widow of Thomas Myddleton II and mother of Thomas Myddelton III and thence by descent; with some of the contents, in 1978, that were acquired along with Chirk Castle from Lt-Col Ririd Myddelton (1902–1988) by the National Land Fund and handed, on loan for 99 years, to the Secretary of State. On loan to the Trust from Guy Charles Myddelton. Gifted to Guy C Myddelton from Captain David Myddelton in 2010. Purchased by the National Trust from Mr Guy Myddelton in 2023.
Makers and roles
British (English) School, artist
References
Steegman 1957 John Steegman, A Survey of Portraits in Welsh Houses, Vol.I: North Wales, Cardiff, 1957, p. 88, no.40 Chirk Castle Picture List [National Trust] 2005, no. 20