Alicia Brownlow, Lady Guilford (1684-1727)
Charles d'Agar (Paris 1669 - London 1723)
Category
Art / Oil paintings
Date
circa 1710
Materials
Oil on canvas
Measurements
1245 x 1003 mm (49 x 39 1/2 in)
Place of origin
England
Order this imageCollection
Belton House, Lincolnshire
NT 436030
Summary
Oil painting on canvas, Alicia Brownlow, Lady Guilford (1684 - 1727) by Charles d'Agar (Paris 1669 - London 1723), inscribed, erroneously, lower left: ALICE SHERARD WIFE/OF SR. JN. BROWNLOWE. A three-quarter-length portrait of a young woman, seated, gazing at the spectator, dark hair, a tress falling on her right shoulder, wearing a red cross-over dress over a white chemise and a blue mantle draped over her right shoulder and falling to the right and left. She was the daughter of ‘Young’ Sir John Brownlow (1659 - 1697) 3rd Bt and Alice Sherard (1659 - 1721). She married Francis North, 2nd Baron Guilford (1637 - 1685), son of Francis North, 1st Baron Guilford and Lady Frances Pope, circa 8 July 1703. She died on 22 August 1727. Their son was Francis North, 1st Earl of Guilford (1704 - 1790).
Provenance
Acquired by purchase from Lord Brownlow with grants from the National Heritage Memorial Fund in January 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
Charles d'Agar (Paris 1669 - London 1723), artist previously catalogued as manner of Sir Godfrey Kneller (Lübeck 1646 - London 1723), artist previously catalogued as attributed to Charles Jervas (Dublin 1675 – London 1739), artist