Alice Sherard, Lady Brownlow (1659-1721)
Sir Godfrey Kneller (Lübeck 1646 - London 1723)
Category
Art / Oil paintings
Date
circa 1680
Materials
Oil on canvas
Measurements
1460 x 1250 mm
Place of origin
England
Order this imageCollection
Belton House, Lincolnshire
NT 436029
Summary
Oil painting on canvas, Alice Sherard, Lady Brownlow (1659-1721) by Sir Godfrey Kneller (Lübeck 1646/9 - London 1723). A three-quarter length portrait of a young woman, seated on a terrace by an urn, her dark hair falling on her left shoulder, wearing a blue dress, white bodice and yellow mantle. Inscribed. The sitter 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: 1. Elizabeth Brownlow (1681-1723) Countess of Exeter; 2.Alicia Brownlow, Lady Guilford (1684-1727); 3.Margaret Brownlow (1687-1710); 4.Jane Brownlow, Duchess of Ancaster (1689-1736); 5.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)
Makers and roles
Sir Godfrey Kneller (Lübeck 1646 - London 1723), artist