Dorothy Mason, Lady Brownlow (1665-1699/1700)
Willem Wissing (Amsterdam 1656 - Burghley House 1687)
Category
Art / Oil paintings
Date
1687
Materials
Oil on canvas
Measurements
1245 x 997 mm (49 x 39 1/4 in)
Place of origin
England
Order this imageCollection
Belton House, Lincolnshire
NT 436046
Summary
Oil painting on canvas, Dorothy Mason, Lady Brownlow (1665-1700) by Willem Wissing (Amsterdam 1656 - Burghley House 1687), inscribed bottom left: DOROTHY MASON / WIFE OF SIR WILLIAM BROWNLOW BT / PAINTED BY WISSING, 1687. A three-quarter length portrait of a young woman, seated, turned slightly to the right, head to the left, gazing at the spectator, wearing a blue dress, white chemise and brown mantle. Her left hand is raised the background is a terrace. Dorothy Mason was born in May 1664, at Sutton, Surrey, the daughter of Sir Richard Mason (c.1633-1685) and Anne Margaret Long (c.1637-1711). She married Sir William Brownlow 4th Bt (1665-1702) son of Sir Richard Brownlow 2nd Bt (1628-1668) and Elizabeth Freke (1634-1684). She was described as 'really deserving everybody's love'.Her children were:.Anne Brownlow (1694-17790) who married Sir Richard Cust; Richard Brownlow (1689-1690); John Brownlow, 1st and last Viscount Tyrconnel (1690-1754) and Dorothy Brownlow (b.1695). She died before May 1700. Her will was probated in May 1700. After her premature death, her sorrowing husband gave her an immense funeral procession and commemorated her with a monument by William Stanton (1639-1705) in St Nicholas Church, Sutton, in Surrey. dismissed by William Hone as 'a sort of hasty pudding, garnished with slices of gingerbread'. The monument is now completely concealed by the church organ.The design for the monument is in the collection of the V&A Museum.
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
1687 (and signed by both artists)
Makers and roles
Willem Wissing (Amsterdam 1656 - Burghley House 1687), artist previously catalogued as attributed to Jan van der Vaardt (Haarlem 1647 – London 1727), artist