Mary Osbaldeston, Lady Wrothe (1678-before 1721)
Michael Dahl (Stockholm 1659 - London 1743)
Category
Art / Oil paintings
Date
1700 (inscribed) - 1710
Materials
Oil on canvas
Measurements
1270 x 1016 mm (50 x 40 in)
Place of origin
England
Order this imageCollection
Killerton, Devon
NT 922285
Summary
Oil painting on canvas, Mary Osbaldeston, Lady Wrothe (1678-before 1721) by Michael Dahl (1656-1743), inscribed and dated 1700, but is more likely to be 1710 Inscriptions reads: Lady Wrothe Daugr and Heiress / of Francis Osbaldiston Esqr / 1700. Portrait of a young woman, three-quarter length, facing, gazing at the spectator, seated in architectural interior. She has dark brown hair worn high on the head with a ringlet falling on her right shoulder. She wears an orange-gold wrap-around décolleté dress revealing a white chemise. Her blue cloak/scarf which she holds up with her right hand, is draped below her right elbow which rests on a stone ledge and falls across her right knee. Her left hand lies across her lap. She was the daughter of Francis Osbaldeston (1678) and the wife of Sir Thomas Wroth(e) (1673/4-1721).
Provenance
By inheritance, through Cecily Wroth, wife of Sir Hugh Acland, 6th Bt;until accepted in lieu by HM Government and transferred to the National Trust in 1995
Credit line
Killerton, The Acland Collection (accepted in lieu by HM Government and transferred to The National Trust in 1995)
Marks and inscriptions
Bottom left (in house-style: Inscribed: Lady Wrothe Daugr and Heiress / of Francis Osbaldiston Esqr / 1700
Makers and roles
Michael Dahl (Stockholm 1659 - London 1743), artist