Elinor Drewe, Mrs Robert Pepper
Sir Godfrey Kneller (Lübeck 1646 - London 1723)
Category
Art / Oil paintings
Date
1680
Materials
Oil on canvas
Measurements
1530 x 1280 mm
Place of origin
England
Order this imageCollection
Belton House, Lincolnshire
NT 436121
Summary
Oil painting on canvas, Eleanor Dewe, Mrs Robert Pepper by Sir Godfrey Kneller (Lübeck 1646/9 - London 1723), 1680. Inscribed, bottom right: MS. PEPPER/WIFE TO DOCTR. PEPPER/KNELLER FEC/1680. Inscribed Elinor Dewe, daughter of Lumley Dewe of Upton Bishop, Herefordshire. A three-quarter-length portrait of a young woman in a brown dress, white bodice and plum coloured mantle, holding a sprig of blossom in her right hand and standing on a terrace. She married, as his second wife, Dr Robert Pepper (d.1700), Chancellor of the Diocese of Norwich. She was the sister of Margaret Dewe, the wife of Richard Sherard of Lobthorpe and aunt to Alice Sherard, Lady Brownlow (1659-1721) in whose education she assisted.
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
Sir Godfrey Kneller (Lübeck 1646 - London 1723), artist previously catalogued as attributed to Sir Peter Lely (Soest 1618 – London 1680), artist