Elizabeth Cutler, Countess of Radnor (d.1696/7)
after Sir Godfrey Kneller (Lübeck 1646 - London 1723)
Category
Art / Oil paintings
Date
1670 - 1699
Materials
Oil on canvas
Measurements
762 x 635 mm (30 x 25 in)
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Lanhydrock, Cornwall
NT 884962
Summary
Oil painting on canvas, Elizabeth Cutler, Countess of Radnor (d.1696/7), after Sir Godfrey Kneller Bt. (Lübeck 1646 - London 1723). A painted oval portrait. A variant copy of the head and shoulders of LAN.P.49 - with the - now purely blue, and pearl-less - cloak brought right over her shoulder.
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: In black, bottom right: Eliz. Daughter(?) to/Sr. Jn. Cutler Bart. and/wife to Charles Bodmin(?)/Robartes Earl of Radnor. Verso: In ink, on an old label: N9 Verso: In ink, on a more recent (?) label: These two frames the same.
Makers and roles
after Sir Godfrey Kneller (Lübeck 1646 - London 1723), artist previously catalogued as school of Sir Peter Lely (Soest 1618 – London 1680), artist