Mary Pakington, Lady Yate (1610/11-1696)
studio of Pieter Borsselaer (Middelburg 1632 - Goes 1692)
Category
Art / Oil paintings
Date
circa 1664
Materials
Oil on canvas
Measurements
865 x 750 x 50 mm
Order this imageCollection
Coughton Court, Warwickshire
NT 135571
Summary
Oil painting on canvas, Mary Pakington, Lady Yate (1610/11-1696), studio of Peter Borsseler fl. London 1664 - Middleburg 1687), circa 1664. Inscribed mid-left with name of the sitter: 'Dame Mary Yate Daughter to Humphrey Pakington Esq. & Wife to Sir John Tate'. A sculptured oval half-length portrait, of Lady Yate, as an elderly woman (in fact only 54!), turned slightly to left, gazing to the left, wearing widow's clothes with white chemisetts and black veil or hood. Mary Yate, daughter of Humphrey Pakington and wife of Sir John Yate, 2nd Baronet. There is another version of this painting, a signed three-quarter-length, inscribed with the sitter's age, 53, and the date 1664, previously of an unidentified woman at the Rijksmuseum, with an English provenance.
Provenance
By descent and inheritance through Mary Yate (d.1722), the heiress-wife of Sir Robert Throckmorton, 3rd Bt., who brought Buckland and Harrington into the family; purchased by National Trust in 1992 by Private Treaty sale with NHMF funds.
Credit line
Coughton Court, The Throckmorton Collection (National Trust)
Marks and inscriptions
Mid-left: Dame Mary Yate / Daughter to / Humphrey / Packington Esqr. / & Wife to / Sr John Yate
Makers and roles
studio of Pieter Borsselaer (Middelburg 1632 - Goes 1692) , artist