Lady Mary Bellings-Arundell, Baroness Arundell of Wardour (1716–1769)
attributed to Enoch Seeman the younger (Gdańsk c.1694 – London 1744)
Category
Art / Oil paintings
Date
1694 - 1744
Materials
Oil on canvas
Measurements
1252 x 1000 mm
Order this imageCollection
Oxburgh Hall, Norfolk
NT 1210369
Summary
Oil painting on canvas, Lady Mary Bellings-Arundell, Baroness Arundell of Wardour (1716–1769) attributed to Enoch Seeman the younger (Gdańsk c.1694 – London 1744). Three-quarter-length portrait of a young woman, seated in a landscape, wearing a gold dress, black bow at decollete. A whippet on her lap with its left paw in her right hand, and wearing a collar inscribed 'Arundel'. Later inscribed l.r. 'Mary y daughter and heir of R Arundel of Lanihurne in Cornwall, Esq and Cousin to Elizabeth Lady Bedingfield, she married in 1738 her relation Lord Arundel of Wardour who died 1756. She died in ..?'. She was a cousin of Elizabeth Bedingfeld, 2nd wife of Sir Henry 2nd Bt. Gilt frame. Inscribed in white '60'.
Provenance
By descent in the Bedingfeld family, Oxburgh Hall, since C18. See Duleep Singh, Portraits in Norfolk Houses 1927 Vol II, p.107 no.4. The sitter was the daughter and sole heir of Richard Bellings-Arundell of Lanherne Cornwall and his wife Anne Gage. On 27th January 1739 she married Henry Arundell, Baron Arundell of Wardour. Formerly hung in the Saloon at Oxburgh, where it was described by Duleep Singh, and listed in the 1913 inventory of pictures. White no. 60 on the canvas accords with the number beside it in the 1913 picture list. Sold at auction of Oxburgh Hall and contents by Messrs JD Wood and C Hawkins 31st October and 1st November 1951, lot no. 664; purchased at Sothebys, London 22nd November 2007, lot 27
Makers and roles
attributed to Enoch Seeman the younger (Gdańsk c.1694 – London 1744), artist