Lady Dorothy Savile, Countess of Burlington (1699-1758) with her Daughter Lady Dorothy Boyle, later Countess of Euston (1724-1742)
Michael Dahl (Stockholm 1659 - London 1743)
Category
Art / Oil paintings
Date
circa 1735
Materials
Oil on canvas
Measurements
620 x 740 mm
Place of origin
England
Order this imageCollection
Hardwick Hall, Derbyshire
NT 1129190
Summary
Oil painting on canvas, Lady Dorothy Savile, Countess of Burlington (1699 - 1758) with her Daughter Lady Dorothy Boyle, later Countess of Euston (1724 - 1742) by Michael Dahl (Stockholm 1656/9 - London 1743), inscribed top right in gold: Lady Burlington / & Lady Dorothy Boyle. Two bust-length portraits, the mother at the right, wearing red, the daughter dressed in white. Reduced from a larger painting.
Provenance
In Swift 1811 inventory and thence by descent until, following the death of Edward William Spencer Cavendish, 10th Duke of Devonshire (1895 - 1950), Hardwick Hall and its contents were accepted by HM Treasury in part payment of death duties and transferred to the National Trust, in 1959
Credit line
Hardwick Hall, The Devonshire Collection (National Trust)
Marks and inscriptions
top right Lady Burlington and Lady Dorothy Boyle
Makers and roles
Michael Dahl (Stockholm 1659 - London 1743), artist