Lady Mary Butler, Duchess of Devonshire (1646-1710)
style of Willem Wissing (Amsterdam 1656 - Burghley House 1687)
Category
Art / Oil paintings
Date
1666 - 1710
Materials
Oil on canvas
Measurements
1260 x 1060 mm
Order this imageCollection
Hardwick Hall, Derbyshire
NT 1129228
Caption
Lady Mary was the second daughter of James, 1st Duke of Ormonde. She was married, in 1662, to William, Lord Cavendish, who succeeded his father as 4th Earl of Devonshire in 1684, and was created Duke in 1694. The Duke was known as “a Corydon among the ladies” – if not worse – and it may be for that reason that she elected to be buried, not with him in All Saints’, Derby, but in Westminster Abbey with her parents.
Summary
Oil painting on canvas, Lady Mary Butler, Duchess of Devonshire (1646-1710), style of Willem Wissing (Amsterdam 1656 - Burghley House 1687). Nearly full length portrait, seated, facing, wearing a red dress and blue scarf, her left hand resting on her lap, her right elbow supported on a bank. Landscape view.
Provenance
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 1st Duchess of Devonshire
Makers and roles
style of Willem Wissing (Amsterdam 1656 - Burghley House 1687), artist Lenthall, artist