Eleanor Brownlow, Viscountess Tyrconnel (1691-1730)
Charles Jervas (Dublin 1675 – London 1739)
Category
Art / Oil paintings
Date
1705 - 1730
Materials
Oil on canvas
Measurements
1470 x 1250 mm
Place of origin
England
Order this imageCollection
Belton House, Lincolnshire
NT 436086
Summary
Oil painting on canvas, Eleanor Brownlow, Viscountess Tyrconnel (1691-1730) by Charles Jervas (Dublin 1675 – London 1739). Inscribed bottom left: VISCOUNTESSE TYRCNNEL [sic] / JERVAS. FECT. A three-quarter-length portrait of a young woman, facing, head inclined slightly to the right, gazing at the spectator holding up a sprig of flowersin her left hand and with a basket of flowers hung from her right arm. She had long brown hair, and is wearing a a white satin dress beneath a red sleevless jacket which is laced down the front. She is standing on a terrace with a formal garden behind. Eleanor Brownlow, Viscountess Tyrconnel (1691-1730), was the youngest daughter of ‘Young’ Sir John Brownlow, 3rd Bt (1659-1697) (the builder of Belton)and Alice Sherard (1659-1721); married her cousin Sir John Brownlow, 5th Bt, Viscount Tyrconnel and Baron Clarkville (1690-1754). Though the 'pretyest of them all', the only one not to be wed by her mother to a nobleman, despite being courted by Lord Raby. Yet in the event, her husband and cousin whose first wife she became, in 1712 was created Viscount Tyrconnel.
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
Charles Jervas (Dublin 1675 – London 1739), artist