Alice Pulteney, Lady Brownlow (1604-1676)
Gilbert Soest (Soest c.1605 – London 1681)
Category
Art / Oil paintings
Date
circa 1630 - 1676
Materials
Oil on canvas
Measurements
737 x 610 mm
Place of origin
England
Order this imageCollection
Belton House, Lincolnshire
NT 436099
Summary
Oil painting on canvas (oval), Alice Poultney Lady Brownlow (1604-1676) by Gerard Soest (Soest c.1600 – London 1681). A head-and-shoulders portrait of a young woman, turned to the right, gazing at the spectator, wearing a brown dress and blue mantle with head half turned to the right. 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.
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
Gilbert Soest (Soest c.1605 – London 1681), artist