Margaret Brownlow (1687-1710) and an unidentified attendant
Henry Tilson (Yorkshire c.1659 - London 1695)
Category
Art / Oil paintings
Date
1695
Materials
Oil on canvas
Measurements
1410 x 1029 mm (55 1/2 x 40 1/2 in)
Place of origin
England
Order this imageCollection
Belton House, Lincolnshire
NT 436006
Summary
Oil painting on canvas, Margaret Brownlow (1687-1710) and an Unidentified Attendant, by Henry Tilson (Yorkshire c.1659 - London 1695), 1695. A full-length portrait of the daughter of ‘Young’ Sir John Brownlow, 3rd Bt (1659-1697), the builder of Belton House, as a young girl, standing, gazing at the spectator, in a blue dress and yellow mantle, holding a basket of flowers. A child attendant holding a King Charles spaniel accompanies her on the terrace. That the attendant is a child of African descent suggests they may be enslaved. It is not known if the child was included by the artist as a trope or as a portrait of a real individual.
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
Ms Margaret Brownlow daughter Sir John Brownlow/Tilson Fec
Makers and roles
Henry Tilson (Yorkshire c.1659 - London 1695), artist