Alice Pulteney, Lady Brownlow (1604-1676)
attributed to Gilbert Soest (Soest c.1605 – London 1681)
Category
Art / Oil paintings
Date
1650
Materials
Oil on canvas
Measurements
1350 x 1170 mm
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Belton House, Lincolnshire
NT 436059
Summary
Oil painting on canvas, Alice Pulteney, Lady Brownlow (1604-1676), attributed to Gerard Soest (Soest c.1600 – London 1681), 1650. Inscribed along the bottom: ALICE POULTNEY WIFE TO OLD SR. JOHN BROWNLOWE. A painted oval half-length portrait of a mature woman, turned to the left, gazing slightly to the left, dark brown hair fallilng in ringlets on her shoulders, wearing a white dress and blue wrap with pearl necklace. Alice Pulteney was born in 1604. She was the daughter of Sir John Pulteney of Misterton, Leicestershire. She married in 1621, 'Old' Sir John Brownlow, 1st and last Bt (1594-1679) son of Richard Brownlow (d.1638) and Katharine Page. She died in 1676 without issue. She is charmingly commemorated holding hands with her husband in William Stanton's monument in Belton church.
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
Alice Poultney wife to Old Sir John Brownlow
Makers and roles
attributed to Gilbert Soest (Soest c.1605 – London 1681), artist