Frances Margaret Taylor, Mrs William Crane Blathwayt (d.1844)
Thomas Phillips, RA (Dudley 1770 – London 1845)
Category
Art / Oil paintings
Date
1832
Materials
oil on canvas
Measurements
900 x 699 mm
Order this imageCollection
Dyrham, Gloucestershire
NT 453818
Summary
Oil painting on canvas, Frances Margaret Taylor, Mrs William Crane Blathwayt (d.1844) by Thomas Phillips, RA (Dudley 1770 – London 1845), 1832. A half-length portrait of Frances Margaret Taylor, wife of William Crane (1795-1839), who took the additional name Blathwayt in 1817 and inherited Dyrham Park. She is shown seated, in a landscape, wearing a brown dress with elaborate lace trimmings, long gloves, and a hat trimmed with white ostrich feathers. She rests her gloved right hand on her lap, in which she holds her left glove, and rests her left elbow on a cushion, holding her left hand up to her face.
Provenance
Indigenous collection purchased by Ministry of Works in 1956 and given to Dyrham Park in 1961
Credit line
Dyrham Park, The Blathwayt Collection (acquired by the Ministry of Works via the National Land Fund in 1956, and transferred to the National Trust)
Marks and inscriptions
On two pieces of masking tape, on the back of the painting: 89 On a printed and handwritten label, on the back of the painting, partially obscured: [F]ORT[T], HATT & BILLINGS / 215 [handwritten in blue] / DEPOSITORIES, BATH
Makers and roles
Thomas Phillips, RA (Dudley 1770 – London 1845), artist previously catalogued as attributed to British (English) School, artist
References
Thos. Phillips 1795 Catalogue of his Works, copied from T. Phillips's original note-book, 23 September 1899, Milner