William Brownlow (1699-1726)
Enoch Seeman the younger (Gdańsk c.1694 – London 1744)
Category
Art / Oil paintings
Date
1725 - 1726
Materials
Oil on canvas
Measurements
910 x 770 mm
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Belton House, Lincolnshire
NT 436116
Summary
Oil painting on canvas, William Brownlow (1699-1726) by Enoch Seeman the younger (Gdańsk c.1694 – London 1744). A painted oval half-length portrait of a young man, turned slightly to the right, gazing at the spectator, in a grey powdered wig, wearing a maroon coat and waistcoat with white shirt. The sitter was born on 25 April 1699, the younger son of Sir William Brownlow, 4th Bt (1665-1702) and Dorothy Mason (1655?-1699/1700); younger brother of Viscount Tyrconnel. He died unmarried on 28 July 1726, aged 27, impoverished by the collapse of the South Sea Bubble. His brother put up a fulsomely-worded monument to him 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
Enoch Seeman the younger (Gdańsk c.1694 – London 1744), artist