Possibly Mary Langham, Countess of Warrington (1652/53 - 1690/91)
studio of Jacob Huysmans (Antwerp c.1630 – London 1696)
Category
Art / Oil paintings
Date
circa 1670
Materials
Oil on canvas
Measurements
1257 x 1003 mm (49 1/2 x 39 1/2 in)
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Lanhydrock, Cornwall
NT 884946
Summary
Oil painting on canvas, Possibly Mary Langham, Countess of Warrington (1652/53 - 1690/91), studio of Jacob Huysmans (Antwerp c.1630 – London c.1696). A three-quarter-length portrait, standing in profile to left, head facing, and wearing a red dress and blue green stole. An aracadian rendering as if personifying St Agnes or a shepherdess as she has a lamb, on the right and is holding a crook in her right hand. The body is awkwardly painted and the impression is given that the sitter has no shoulders.
Provenance
by descent, until given by Gerald, 7th Viscount Clifden (1883 - 1966), with the transfer of the house to the National Trust, in 1953
Credit line
Lanhydrock, The Robartes Collection (National Trust)
Marks and inscriptions
Recto: On gilt label on frame: VISCOUNTESS BODMIN Verso: In same hand as LAN.P.61/Gore no.33 etc.: on old label reaffixed to new stretcher: Isabella / Countess of Radnor/ painted by Sir Peter Lely Adjacent label: The above[sic]is supposed to be a / mistake, it should be / "Lucy the second Lady Robartes / painted by M.Beale" / Mary Robartes 1889 * (but LAN.P.75/ Gore no.5 is now labelled as Lucy, Lady Robartes [equally wrongly]) Further inscription on adjacent store label on stretcher: Robarts / July 28 / Frame 2 * cf Mary Robartes, correction of LAN.P.49 from Lucy the second Lady Robartes by M. Beale to Elizabeth Countess of Radnor by M.Dahl.
Makers and roles
studio of Jacob Huysmans (Antwerp c.1630 – London 1696), artist previously catalogued as attributed to Sir Peter Lely (Soest 1618 – London 1680), artist