Dorothy North, Lady Dacre, Mrs Chaloner Chute (c.1605 – 1698)
attributed to Remigius van Leemput (Antwerp 1607 – London 1675)
Category
Art / Oil paintings
Date
1650 - 1655
Materials
Oil on canvas
Measurements
2160 x 1245 mm
Order this imageCollection
Vyne Estate, Hampshire
NT 719436
Summary
Oil painting on canvas, Dorothy North, Lady Dacre, Mrs Chaloner Chute (c.1605 – 1698), attributed to Remigius van Leemput (Antwerp 1607 – London 1675), after Sir Anthony Van Dyck (Antwerp 1599 - London 1641). A full-length portrait of the daughter of Dudley, 3rd Lord North and Frances Brocket, standing to right, her hands fingering a scarf over her right shoulder. She married firstly in 1624/5 Richard Lennard, the 13th Lord Dacre (d.1630) and secondly, in 1650, Chaloner Chute, the Speaker. The son of her second marriage, Chaloner, married the daughter of her first, Catherine Dacre. She retained the title of Lady Dacre until her death.
Provenance
In posthumous inventory of Anthony Chute (d.1754), in The [Oak] Gallery: "A ditto [= A whole length] of Lady Dacre, in rich carved gilt frame"; ?posthumous inventory of John Chute (d.1776), in the Dining Room [now Library], as one of: "2 family pieces of painting, whole length, in carved and gilt frames"; ?1842 inventory, in the Billiard Room [ditto], as: "A ditto (ditto) in ditto" [= A painting (portrait) in a carved and gilt frame"; Wiggett Chute's Reminiscenes, 1849-79, as in the Library: "that [a portrait] of Lady Dacre, his [Speaker Chute's] 2nd wife, a bad portrait after Vandyke, were hung in their present positions"; 1880s Notes, ibid: "Lady Dacre - the Speaker's wife, copy of Vandyke"; bequeathed with The Vyne, estate and contents by Sir Charles Chute, 1st Bt (1879-1956)
Credit line
The Vyne, The Chute Collection (National Trust)
Makers and roles
attributed to Remigius van Leemput (Antwerp 1607 – London 1675), artist previously catalogued as after Sir Anthony Van Dyck (Antwerp 1599 - London 1641), artist