Possibly Elizabeth Sherard
attributed to John Riley (London 1646 – London 1691)
Category
Art / Oil paintings
Date
circa 1680
Materials
Oil on canvas
Measurements
1450 x 1200 mm
Place of origin
England
Order this imageCollection
Belton House, Lincolnshire
NT 436028
Summary
Oil painting on canvas, Elizabeth Sherard, attributed to John Riley (London 1646 – London 1691).Wrongly inscribed with sitter's identity as Lady Elizabeth Aislabie. A three-quarter length portrait of a young woman, seated, resting her right arm on an urn and wearing a blue dress, white bodice and brown mantle. This cannot, as inscribed be a portrait of Lady Elizabeth Cecil grand daughter of Alice, Lady Brownlow, who married William Aislabie of Studley Royal Yorkshire. If an Elizabeth she is most probably Alice's unmarried sister, Elizabeth Sherard who lived with the family at Belton and who was the daughter of Richard Sherard (d.1668) of Lobthorpe and Margaret Dewe daughter of Lumley Dewe. She was the sister of Alice Sherard, Lady Brownlow (1659-1721).
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
attributed to John Riley (London 1646 – London 1691), artist previously catalogued as attributed to Garret Morphey (b.Dublin fl.1690 - Dublin d.1716), artist