Mary Cholmondeley, Lady Myddelton (1628-1658)
British (English) School
Category
Art / Oil paintings
Date
circa 1670
Materials
Oil on canvas
Measurements
1020 x 900 x 40 mm
Place of origin
Great Britain
Order this imageCollection
Chirk Castle, Wrexham
NT 1171116
Summary
Oil painting on canvas, Mary Cholmondeley, Lady Myddelton (1628-1658), English School, circa 1670. A painted oval half-length portrait of Mary Cholmondley, first wife of Thomas Myddelton III, as a young woman. She is turned three-quarters to left, gazing at spectator, wearing a satin grey bodice with full sleeves and embellished with jewels, with blue drapery over her right arm, a single-string pearl necklace, pearl earrings, curls framing her face. Probably a posthumous portrait.
Full description
Associated with Chirk Castle
Provenance
Probably commissioned, circa 1670, posthumously by Mary Napier, second wife and widow of Thomas Myddleton II and mother of Thomas Myddelton IIII and thence by descent; With some of the contents, in 1978, that were acquired along with Chirk Castle from Lt-Col Ririd Myddelton (1902–1988) by the National Land Fund and handed, on loan for 99 years, to the Secretary of State for Wales (In 1981 Chirk was transferred into the ownership of the National Trust). On loan to the Trust from Guy Charles Myddelton. Gifted to Guy C Myddelton from Captain David Myddelton in 2010.
Credit line
Chirk Castle, The Myddelton Collection (National Trust)
Makers and roles
British (English) School, artist
References
Steegman 1957 John Steegman, A Survey of Portraits in Welsh Houses, Vol.I: North Wales, Cardiff, 1957, p. 88, no.43 Laing 1989 Alastair Laing, ‘Changelings at Chirk Castle’, Country Life, 8 June 1989, pp.272 - 75