Isobel Heyton, Mrs Thomas Heyton
Thomas Leigh (fl.1634 – 1643)
Category
Art / Oil paintings
Date
1634 (signed and dated)
Materials
Oil on canvas
Measurements
699 x 584 mm (27 1/2 x 23 in)
Place of origin
England
Order this imageCollection
Trerice, Cornwall
NT 337038.2
Summary
Oil paintings on canvas, Isobel, Mrs Thomas Heyton by Thomas Leigh (fl.1634 – 1643, signed, with monogram, and dated 'Lee fecit 1634' and inscribed with motto on scroll: Quel Ch'è dentro Spettabile ['That which is behind the visible']
Provenance
Given to the National Trust by Lady Spickernell, of Newbury, Berkshire, between 1954 and 1965
Makers and roles
Thomas Leigh (fl.1634 – 1643), artist
References
Roberts and Tittler 2010 Stephanie Roberts and Robert Tittler, Discovering 'T. Leigh': tracking the elusive portrait painter through Stuart England and Wales, British Art Journal, 22 June 2010