Frances Bankes, Lady Brownlow (1756 – 1847)
after James Rannie Swinton (Kimmergehame 1816 - London 1888)
Category
Art / Oil paintings
Date
circa 1846
Materials
Oil on canvas
Measurements
800 x 673 mm (31 1/2 x 26 1/2 in)
Place of origin
England
Order this imageCollection
Belton House, Lincolnshire
NT 435949
Summary
Oil painting on canvas, Frances Bankes, Lady Brownlow (1756 – 1847), after James Rannie Swinton (Kimmergehame 1816 - London 1888), circa 1846. A half-length portrait of an old lady, seated wearing a black dress with a white lace collar and matching cap worn over tight ringlet-curls framing her brow. Painted when she was 90 years old. She was the daughter of Sir Henry Bankes (1711-1774), an alderman and merchant of London and Frances Pembrooke. She married in 1775 as his second wife, Sir Brownlow Cust, 1st Baron Brownlow of Belton (1744-1807) and brought with her a dowry of £100,000, and a collection of her father's pictures. She also bore him eleven children.
Provenance
Purchased with a grant from the National Heritage Memorial Fund (NHMF) from Edward John Peregrine Cust, 7th Baron Brownlow, C. St J. (b.1936) in 1984
Credit line
Belton House, The Brownlow Collection (acquired with the help of the National Heritage Memorial Fund by the National Trust in 1984)
Makers and roles
after James Rannie Swinton (Kimmergehame 1816 - London 1888), artist