Mary Bunce, Lady Langham (1599/1600-1652)
British (English) School
Category
Art / Oil paintings
Date
1650 (inscribed)
Materials
Oil on canvas
Measurements
(49 x 39 in) 1245 x 990 mm
Place of origin
England
Order this imageCollection
Dunham Massey, Cheshire
NT 932314
Caption
Mary Bunce, Lady Langham (1600-1652), was the daughter of Sir James Bunce. In c.1620, she married Sir John Langham (1583-1671) of Cottesbrooke, Northamptonshire, by whom she bore fifteen children. It was her granddaughter, Mary Langham, the daughter of their son, Sir James Langham, who married Henry Booth, 1st Earl of Warrington (1651-1694). He owned Dunham Massey, where this portrait hangs.
Summary
Oil painting on canvas, Mary Bunce, Lady Langham (1599/1600-1652), British (English) School, inscribed in black, lower left: Ætat: Suae / 50 / Ano. Dom: / 1650 and inscribed later, in yellow, with name of sitter, bottom right: Lady Langham / ob.1652. A three-quarter-length portrait of an elderly woman, seatedin a red upholstered chair, turned to the left, gazing at the spectator, wearing a black dress with white lawn collar and cuffs and black headdress; she wears a short single string of pearls, the palm of her left hand is placed on an open book in her lap. Lady Langham was the grandmother of Mary Booth (née Langham), wife of the 1st Earl of Warrington.
Provenance
Bequeathed to the National Trust with the house, estate and all the contents of Dunham Massey by Roger Grey, 10th Earl of Stamford (1896 - 1976)
Marks and inscriptions
(labelled)
Makers and roles
British (English) School, artist previously catalogued as attributed to Gilbert Soest (Soest c.1605 – London 1681), artist