William Brownlow (1699-1726)
Sir Godfrey Kneller (Lübeck 1646 - London 1723)
Category
Art / Oil paintings
Date
1719
Materials
Oil on canvas
Measurements
1450 x 1200 mm
Place of origin
England
Order this imageCollection
Belton House, Lincolnshire
NT 436120
Summary
Oil painting on canvas, William Brownlow (1699-1726) by Sir Godfrey Kneller (Lübeck 1646/9 - London 1723), 1719. Inscribed. A three-quarter-length portrait of a man, in a green coat and waistcoat, white lace cravat and cuffs. His right hand leaning on a chair. Painted, like his sister's portrait, and for her, in 1719 when he describes visiting Kneller's studio and asking for the periwig to be made a little darker. He 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
Sir Godfrey Kneller (Lübeck 1646 - London 1723), artist