Eleanor Brownlow, later Viscountess Tyrconnel (1691-1730) as a Young Girl
John Closterman (Osnabrück 1660 - London 1711)
Category
Art / Oil paintings
Date
circa 1702
Materials
Oil on canvas
Measurements
2040 x 1080 mm
Place of origin
England
Order this imageCollection
Belton House, Lincolnshire
NT 436130
Summary
Oil painting on canvas, Eleanor Brownlow, later Viscountess Tyrconnel (1691-1730) as a Young Girl by John Closterman (Osnabrück 1660 – London 1711), signed and inscribed, circa 1702. A full-length portrait of a young girl, turned slightly to the right, gazing at the spectator, wearing a blue dress and red mantle in the garden at Belton, a greyhound is beside her. She 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 1st 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
John Closterman (Osnabrück 1660 - London 1711), artist