Francisca Posthuma Legh, Lady Brooke (b.1639/40)
British (English) School
Category
Art / Oil paintings
Date
1670
Materials
Oil on canvas
Measurements
762 x 635 mm (30 x 25 in)
Order this imageCollection
Lyme, Cheshire
NT 499944
Summary
Oil painting on canvas, Francisca Posthuma Legh, Lady Brooke (b.1639/40), British (English) School, 1670. A painted oval half-length portrait of a middle-aged woman, head facing, inclined slightly to right, with curled brown hair, tresses falling on her right shoulder, wearing a black gown lined with scarlet to the neck, short (slashed?) sleeves, a white chemise with a ruffled collar beneath. Two brooches, one on her left shoulder with two ropes of pearls, another on the turn-back of her sleeve, again on her left. Red drapery to the lower left corner. Sister of Richard Legh, wife of Sir Richard Brooke.
Provenance
This painting with eight others was presented by Sir Bruce Richmond (1871 – 1964) in 1959. All these portraits belonged to the Rev. Legh Richmond, grandson of Legh Richmond, the Rector of Stockport and great grandfather of Sir Bruce who gave the pictures to the Trust for exhibition at Lyme. NT 499943 and NT 499944 passed to a younger son, whose daughter married the 10th Lord Belhaven and left the pictures to Sir Bruce Ingram, the remainder descended directly to this donor.
Credit line
Lyme Park, The Legh Collection (National Trust)
Marks and inscriptions
FRANCISCA POSTHUMA LEGH (printed in black onto a gilt label at the base of the frame)
Makers and roles
British (English) School, artist