Dorothy Mason, Lady Brownlow (1665-1699/1700)
Michael Dahl (Stockholm 1659 - London 1743)
Category
Art / Oil paintings
Date
circa 1690
Materials
Oil on canvas
Measurements
1260 x 1020 mm
Order this imageCollection
Belton House, Lincolnshire
NT 436142
Summary
Oil painting on canvas, Dorothy Mason, Lady Brownlow (1665-1699) by Michael Dahl (Stockholm 1656/9 – London 1743). A three-quarter-length portrait of a young woman, seated, turned to the right, gazing at the spectator, wearing a brown dress and blue mantle and with her left arm resting on a stone ledge. She was the daughter of Sir Richard Mason (c.1633-1685) and Anne Margaret Long (c.1637-1711). She married Sir William Brownlow 4th Bt (1665-1702), son of Sir Richard Brownlow 2nd Bt (1628-1668) and Elizabeth Freke (1634-1684). Described as 'really deserving everybody's love'. Her children were: Anne Brownlow (1694-17790), who married Sir Richard Cust; Richard Brownlow (1689-1690); John Brownlow, 1st and last Viscount Tyrconnel (1690-1754); Dorothy Brownlow (b.1695). After her premature death, her sorrowing husband gave her an immense funeral procession and commemorated her with a monument by William Stanton (1639-1705) in St Nicholas Church, Sutton, in Surrey. Dismissed by William Hone as 'a sort of hasty pudding, garnished with slices of gingerbread', the monument is now completely concealed by the church organ.The design for the monument is in the collection of the V&A Museum.
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)
Marks and inscriptions
L.A Brownlow / Mother to L.A. Cust
Makers and roles
Michael Dahl (Stockholm 1659 - London 1743), artist