Lady Elizabeth Yorke, Lady Anson (1725-1760)
style of Sir Godfrey Kneller (Lübeck 1646 - London 1723)
Category
Art / Oil paintings
Date
circa 1710 - circa 1715
Materials
Oil on canvas
Measurements
1245 x 1003 mm (49 x 39 1/4 in)
Place of origin
England
Order this imageCollection
Shugborough Estate, Staffordshire
NT 1271069
Summary
Oil painting on canvas, Lady Elizabeth Yorke, Lady Anson (1725-1760)?), style of Sir Godfrey Kneller (Lübeck 1646/9 - London 1723)/ previously attributed to John Vanderbank the younger (London 1694 - London 1739) and attributed to Michael Dahl (Stockholm 1656/9 – London 1743). A three-quarter-length portrait of a young woman, seated, turned slightly to the right, gazing at the spectator, brown hair with a ringlet falling on her right shoulder, wearing a white satin dress, holding a wreath of flowers, two lambs beside her, a distant view of trees and sky to the right.
Provenance
Transferred to the National Trust with Shugborough’s park and contents of the state rooms, in part-payment of death-duties to the Treasury, following the death of Thomas, 4th Earl of Lichfield (1883 - 1960)
Makers and roles
style of Sir Godfrey Kneller (Lübeck 1646 - London 1723), artist John Vanderbank the younger (London 1694 - London 1739), artist attributed to Michael Dahl (Stockholm 1659 - London 1743), artist