Mary Mordaunt, Mrs Robert Throckmorton
follower of Sir Peter Lely (Soest 1618 – London 1680)
Category
Art / Oil paintings
Date
1700 - 1799
Materials
Oil on canvas
Measurements
1270 x 1016 mm (50 x 40 in)
Order this imageCollection
Coughton Court, Warwickshire
NT 135623
Summary
Oil painting on canvas, Mary Mordaunt, Mrs Robert Throckmorton by a follower of Sir Peter Lely (Soest 1618 – London 1680), inscribed: MARY DAUGHTER OF JOHN MORDAUNT ESQr. OF WALTON/ WIFE OF ROBt THROCKMORTON ESQr. A three-quarter-length portrait, seated, turned to the right, gazing at the spectator, her left hand on her knee, short brown curled hair, wearing a brown décolleté dress over a white chemise with a blue wrap spread over her left knee, a red draped curtain on the left and in the background to the right, a pillar behind a vase of flowers.
Provenance
Purchased by the National Trust in 2006
Credit line
Coughton Court, The Throckmorton Collection (National Trust)
Makers and roles
follower of Sir Peter Lely (Soest 1618 – London 1680), artist