Francisca Elizabeth Brooke, Mrs Sylvester Richmond (1678 -1770)
British (English) School
Category
Art / Oil paintings
Date
1690
Materials
Oil on canvas
Measurements
762 x 635 mm (30 x 25 in)
Order this imageCollection
Lyme, Cheshire
NT 499946
Summary
Oil painting on canvas, Francisca Elizabeth Brooke, Mrs Sylvester Richmond (1678 - 1770), British (English) School, 1690. A painted oval half-length portrait of a young woman, turned slightly to the left, facing, head inclined slightly to right, gazing at the spectator, with light brown hair, wearing a green/blue dress with a low neckline, over a white shift and orange cloak which falls from her right shoulder. Daughter of Richard Brooke and Francisca Posthuma Legh and wife of Sylvester Richmond of Acton Grange.
Provenance
This painting with eight others was presented by Sir Bruce Richmond 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 (accepted by HM Government in lieu of inheritance tax and allocated to the National Trust, 2011)
Marks and inscriptions
Francisca Elizabetha Legh (in black on a gilt tablet to the base of the frame)
Makers and roles
British (English) School, artist