Eleanor Brownlow, Viscountess Tyrconnel (1691-1730)
Michael Dahl (Stockholm 1659 - London 1743)
Category
Art / Oil paintings
Date
1708 - 1730
Materials
Oil on canvas (oval)
Measurements
737 x 610 mm (29 x 24 in)
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Belton House, Lincolnshire
NT 435952
Summary
Oil painting on canvas (oval), Eleanor Brownlow, Viscountess Tyrconnel (1691-1730) by Michael Dahl (Stockholm 1656/9 – London 1743). An oval half-length portrait of a young woman, turned slightly to the right, with her head turned slightly to left and gazing to the left, long brown hair, which falls over her right shoulder, wearing a low-cut red dress over a cream chemise aand with a green mantle draped over her right shoulder. She was the youngest and 5th daughter of ‘Young’ Sir John Brownlow, 3rd Bt (1659-1697) (the builder of Belton) and Alice Sherard (1659-1721); married her cousin Sir John Brownlow, 5th Bt, Viscount Tyrconnel and Baron Clarkville (1690-1754). Though the 'pretyest of them all', the only one not to be wed by her mother to a nobleman, despite being courted by Lord Raby. Yet in the event, her husband and cousin whose first wife she became, in 1712, was created Viscount Tyrconnel.
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
Michael Dahl (Stockholm 1659 - London 1743), artist