An Unknown Lady
attributed to Enoch Seeman the younger (Gdańsk c.1694 – London 1744)
Category
Art / Oil paintings
Date
1700 - 1729
Materials
Oil on canvas
Measurements
1257 x 749 mm (49 1/2 x 29 1/2 in)
Place of origin
England
Order this imageCollection
Belton House, Lincolnshire
NT 435957
Summary
Oil painting on canvas, An Unknown Lady attributed to Enoch Seeman the younger (Gdańsk c.1694 – London 1744). Three-quarter length portrait of a young lady, her left arm leaning on a stone plinth, seated, wearing a white wrap-around silk dress over a lace chemise with lace sleeve with frilly cuffs, and holding a sprig of honeysuckle in her right hand which rests on her lap; a landscape setting with distant views of hills and sky to the centre and left.
Provenance
Purchased with a grant from the National Heritage Memorial Fund (NHMF) from Edward John Peregrine Cust, 7th Baron Brownlow, C. St J. (b.1936) in 1984
Credit line
Belton House, The Brownlow Collection (acquired with the help of the National Heritage Memorial Fund by the National Trust in 1984)
Makers and roles
attributed to Enoch Seeman the younger (Gdańsk c.1694 – London 1744), artist