Margaret Brownlow (1687-1710)
Sir Godfrey Kneller (Lübeck 1646 - London 1723)
Category
Art / Oil paintings
Date
circa 1700 - 1710
Materials
Oil on canvas
Measurements
1500 x 1250 mm
Place of origin
England
Order this imageCollection
Belton House, Lincolnshire
NT 436131
Summary
Oil painting on canvas, Margaret Brownlow (1687-1710) by Sir Godfrey Kneller (Lübeck 1646/9 - London 1723). A three-quarter-length portrait of a young woman, turned slightly to the right, gazing at the spectator, wearing a white dress and blue mantle with a basket of flowers on a ledge - inscribed. The basket of flowers is by another hand, reminiscent of Jean- Baptiste Monnoyer. She was the daughter of ‘Young’ Sir John Brownlow, 3rd Bt (1659-1697) the builder of Belton, the son of Sir Richard Brownlow, 2nd Bt (1628-1668) and Alice Sherard (1659-1721) the daughter of Richard Sherard of Lopthorpe (d.1668) and Margaret Drewe. In 1710 her widowed mother tried to arrange a marriage to Lord Sherard, but Margaret declared that she would rather die first. Lord Willoughby then presented himself, and she did die (of smallpox). Peregrine Bertie, Lord Willoughby, afterwards 2nd Duke of Ancaster and Kesteven (1686-1742), later consoled himself by marrying Margaret Brownlow's younger sister Jane Brownlow (1687-1710) the next year.
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