An Unknown Young Girl, possibly Elizabeth Ord, later Lady Blackett
British (English) School
Category
Art / Oil paintings
Date
circa 1710 - 1720
Materials
Oil on canvas
Measurements
343 x 286 mm (13 1/2 x 11 1/4 in)
Place of origin
England
Order this imageCollection
Wallington, Northumberland
NT 584407
Summary
Oil painting on canvas, An Unknown Young Girl, possibly Elizabeth Ord, later Lady Blackett, British (English) School. circa 1710-1720. Inscribed: later 18th century, with name of sitter, centre r.: FRANCES. Daugr. of Hry. THOMPSON./of Esholt. A painted oval half-length portrait of a young girl, facing, gazing at the spectator in a white dress and pink cloak. Inscribed (relatively late) as a portrait of Frances, daughter of Henry Thompson of Esholt, the wife of Sir Walter Calverley, Kt. (1691), of whom there is a portrait as a widow in the Needlework Room. This is clearly impossible. It is most probable that she is either Elizabeth Ord (1759) the natural daughter and heiress of Sir William Blackett, 2nd Bart., and the wife of Sir Walter Calverley Blackett, or the latter's sister, Julia Calverley (1706-68), the wife of Sir George Trevelyan, 3rd Bart. Of the two, Elizabeth Ord, as Sir William's one and only, much-cherished child, is the more likely to have been painted as a little girl; but, because she was illegitimate, she would have been more quickly forgotten.
Provenance
Given with the property to the National Trust in 1941 by Sir Charles Philips Trevelyan, 3rd Bt (1870 -1958)
Credit line
Wallington, The Trevelyan Collection (National Trust)
Marks and inscriptions
(later inscription with name of sitter)
Makers and roles
British (English) School, artist