Frances Richmond (1737-1820)
John Astley (Wem 1724 - Cheshire 1787)
Category
Art / Oil paintings
Date
1759
Materials
Oil on canvas
Measurements
762 x 635 mm (30 x 25 in)
Place of origin
England
Order this imageCollection
Lyme, Cheshire
NT 500030.2
Summary
Oil painting on canvas, Frances Richmond (1737 - 1820) by John Astley (1724 - 1787), 1759. A painted oval half-length portrait of a young woman, head facing slightly right, gazing to the right, with brown hair dressed up, with blue bows and pearls, a plait falling over her left shoulder. She wears a blue ribbon choker and a blue silk dress, with decolletage trimmed at the neck and bodice front with white knotted lace and pearls, and a blue rosette at her bosom. An embroidered shawl of black and white falls across her right shoulder and behind her.
Provenance
Presented by Sir Bruce Richmond (1871-1964) in 1959
Marks and inscriptions
Frances Richmond / Daughter of the Rev. Legh Richmond / Rector of Stockport / (Aged 22 years) / (handwritten on piece of faded paper attached to back of frame)
Makers and roles
John Astley (Wem 1724 - Cheshire 1787), artist possibly James Cranke the Elder (Lancashire 1707 - Lancashire 1780), artist