Ursula Ottley, Lady Wolryche
British (English) School
Category
Art / Oil paintings
Date
circa 1650
Materials
Oil on canvas in a wooden frame
Measurements
1105 x 902 mm (43 1/2 x 35 1/2 in)
Order this imageCollection
Dudmaston, Shropshire
NT 814145
Summary
Oil painting on canvas, Ursula Ottley, Lady Wolryche, British (English) School, circa 1650. A three-quarter-length portrait of the wife of Sir Thomas Wolryche, whom she married in 1625, turned slightly to the right, facing, and gazing at the spectator, her left hand resting on the back of a lamb which is lying down on a ledge on the right. She has long dark hair, with curls framing her brow, wearing a black dress, with grey satin sash over her right shoulder. The sash is held in her right hand and is draped on the ledge on which the lamb is lying. She is wearing double drop pearl earrings, a single strand pearl necklace and brooch at her breast with pendant pearls. She stands before a rocky outcrop on the left, and on the right there is a colourful sunset.
Provenance
Given by Rachel Katherine Hamilton Russell, Lady Labouchere (1908 – 1996) along with the Dudmaston estate in 1978
Credit line
Dudmaston, The Labouchere Collection (National Trust)
Marks and inscriptions
Leggatt Brothers label
Makers and roles
British (English) School, artist previously catalogued as school of Sir Peter Lely (Soest 1618 – London 1680), artist previously catalogued as attributed to Sir Peter Lely (Soest 1618 – London 1680), artist
References
Dudmaston, Shropshire, 1980: [National Trust], 1980, p.9, in the Staircase Hall Dudmaston, Shropshire, 1983: [National Trust], 1980, revised 1983, p.8, in the Staircase Hall Dudmaston, Shropshire, 1999 [National Trust], 1980, reprinted with revisions 1999, p.10, in the Staircase Hall Dudmaston, Shropshire, 2002: [National Trust: Oliver Garnett], 2002, Shown on p.10 in a view of the Oak Room, but not mentioned in the text.