Called Lady Margaret Butler / Lowry-Corry (1748–1775), but possibly Katherine Dopping, or Margaret Hamilton, Mrs Robert Lowry
attributed to James Maubert (Ireland 1666- London 1746)
Category
Art / Oil paintings
Date
circa 1720 - 1730
Materials
oil on canvas
Measurements
1257 x 1003 mm (49 ½ x 39 ½ in)
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Castle Coole, County Fermanagh
NT 227699
Summary
Oil painting on canvas, Called Lady Margaret Butler / Lowry-Corry (1748–1775), but possibly Katherine Dopping or Margaret Hamilton, Mrs Robert Lowry, attributed to James Maubert (Ireland 1666 – London 1746), circa 1720/30, inscribed at top, around 1900: LADY MARGARET BUTLER [LOWRY-CORRY] DIED 1776. A three-quarter-length marriage-portrait, of a lady as St Agnes, incorrectly indentified as Lady Margaret Butler, first wife of the Earl of Belmore as a shepherdess, in a lime-green dress. She holds a crook in her right hand, a spray of myrtle or orange-blossom in her left and a garlanded lamb sits to the left of her.
Provenance
On loan from the Earl of Belmore
Marks and inscriptions
Verso: restorer’s label on back of stretcher: C.E. Clifford
Makers and roles
attributed to James Maubert (Ireland 1666- London 1746), artist previously catalogued as attributed to Charles Jervas (Dublin 1675 – London 1739), artist
References
Marson 2007 P. Marson, Belmore, 2007, pp.14 & 266 n.2