'The Mistress Art' (Personification of Architecture)
possibly Thomas ffrancis (fl.Montgomery 1635-1679-98)
Category
Art / Oil paintings
Date
circa 1672 - 1679
Materials
Oil on panel
Measurements
660 x 457 mm (26 x 18 in)
Place of origin
Chirk Castle
Order this imageCollection
Chirk Castle, Wrexham
NT 1171177
Summary
Oil painting on panel, 'The Mistess Art' (Personification of Architecture), possibly Thomas ffrancis (fl. 1635- 1679), inscribed 'SAPIENS MVLIER AEDIFICAT DOMV', circa 1672/9. A framed panel of an Elizabethan lady personifying Architecture, probably a survival from a decorative scheme.
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)
Credit line
Chirk Castle, The Myddelton Collection (National Trust)
Marks and inscriptions
SAPIENS MVLIER AEDIFICAT DOMV
Makers and roles
possibly Thomas ffrancis (fl.Montgomery 1635-1679-98), artist British (English) School, artist
References
Lord 2000 Peter Lord, The Visual Culture of Wales: Imaging the Nation, Cardiff University of Wales Press, 2000, pp.58-60, fig. 84