Mary Liddell, Mrs Myddelton (d.1741) and her Son Richard (1726-1795)
attributed to Pieter Tillemans (Antwerp 1684 – Suffolk 1734)
Category
Art / Oil paintings
Date
circa 1728
Materials
Oil on canvas
Measurements
1531 x 1234 x 46 mm
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Chirk Castle, Wrexham
NT 1171134
Summary
Oil painting on canvas, Mary Liddell, Mrs Myddelton (d.1741) with her Son Richard (1726-1795) attributed to Pieter Tillemans (Antwerp 1684 – Suffolk 1734), circa 1728. A three-quarter-length portrait of a young woman, seated, facing, head inclined slightly to the left, gazing at spectator, wearing a décolleté brown dress with blue drapery, and holding cherries in the palm of her right hand, which rests on her lap; the child on the right, at her knee, standing, facing, gazing at spectator, his right arm lying across her knees, wearing a loose robe, in his left hand at his chest he holds a cherry, he also wears a close-fitting hat from the top of which sprout three large upstanding ostrich plumes. Evidently an indoor portrait by the same hand as NT 1171131 and very plausibly of the same sitter a few years on, after the birth of her first-born son.
Full description
Associated with Chirk Castle
Provenance
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 by Guy Myddelton. Purchased by the National Trust from Mr Guy Myddelton in 2023.
Credit line
Chirk Castle, The Myddelton Collection (National Trust)
Marks and inscriptions
Verso: Inscribed on old label on back: Gallery No.8
Makers and roles
attributed to Pieter Tillemans (Antwerp 1684 – Suffolk 1734), artist
References
Chirk Castle 2001 Timothy Sammons Ltd, London, Inventory and Valuation of selected chattels at Chirk Castle. Offered by private treaty to the National Trust, 2001, p. 23, no.353