Alice Sherard, Lady Brownlow (1659-1721)
British (English) School
Category
Art / Oil paintings
Date
1680 - 1721
Materials
Oil on canvas
Measurements
533 x 406 mm (21 x 16 in)
Place of origin
England
Order this imageCollection
Belton House, Lincolnshire
NT 435960
Summary
Oil painting on canvas, Alice Sherard, Lady Brownlow (1659-1721), British (English) School. A bust-length portrait of a young woman, turned slightly to the left, gazing at the spectator, brown hair with a ringlet falling on her left shoulder, wearing a white dress, with a jewelled clasp with pendant pearls at her few breast, a small pearl necklace and drop-pearl earrings. She was the daughter of Richard Sherard (d.1668) of Lobthorpe and Margaret Dewe. In conformity with the 'earnest desire' of their childless great uncle, 'Old' Sir John Brownlow who settled his estates on them she married her second cousin 'Young' Sir John Brownlow, 3rd Bt (1659-1697), son of Sir Richard Brownlow, 2nd Bt (1628-1668) and Elizabeth Freke (1634-1684), on 27 March 1676 at Westminster Abbey. Her husband built Belton. She bore him five daughters. In 1697 he comitted suicide in the midst of apparent good fortune. She continued to live at Belton after the death of her husband, concerning herself chiefly with arranging splendid matches for their daughters: Elizabeth Brownlow, Countess of Exeter (1681-1723), Alicia Brownlow, Lady Guilford (1684-1727), Margaret Brownlow (1687-1710), Jane Brownlow, Duchess of Ancaster (1689-1736) and, Eleanor Brownlow, Viscountess Tyrconnel (1691-1730).
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)
Marks and inscriptions
Alicia Lady Brownlowe wife of Sir John Brownlowe Bn of Belton/Who built this Bede House/AD 1659 (on frame)
Makers and roles
British (English) School, artist