Frances Whitmore, Lady Myddelton (1666-1694)
studio of Sir Godfrey Kneller (Lübeck 1646 - London 1723)
Category
Art / Oil paintings
Date
circa 1686
Materials
Oil on canvas
Measurements
1245 x 1016 mm (49 x 40 in)
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Chirk Castle, Wrexham
NT 1171174
Summary
Oil painting on canvas, Frances Whitmore, Lady Myddelton (1666-1694), studio of Sir Godfrey Kneller (Lübeck 1646 - London 1723), 1686. A three-quarter length portrait, of a young woman, seated, frontally, gazing at the spectator wearing a décolleté gold dress with a blue – originally green? – cloak and holding a sprig of blossom. She is resting her left elbow on a putto-figured vase containing an orange tree. It is possibly a wedding portrait. Behind her on the left is a garden terrace. Identical to CHI/P/27 of Princess Anne. She was the daughter of Sir Thomas Whitmore and Frances Brooke, one of Lely's 'Windsor Beauties' and wife of Sir Richard Myddelton 3rd Bt.
Provenance
Purchased 1994
Credit line
Chirk Castle, The Myddelton Collection (National Trust)
Marks and inscriptions
Recto: Oval label suspended by a chain from the bottom of the centre of the frame, inscribed: 22 Verso: Jane, daughter of Sir Thomas Myddelton, wife of Charles Myddelton SIR P LELY B.1617 D.1680 [i.e. really Jane Needham: so frame originally on CHI/P/64, the Lely studio portrait possibly of her? now thought to be Charlotte Bridgeman Lady Myddelton].
Makers and roles
studio of Sir Godfrey Kneller (Lübeck 1646 - London 1723), artist