Susanna Sanderson, Mrs Peter Vansittart (d.1725)
manner of Willem Wissing (Amsterdam 1656 - Burghley House 1687)
Category
Art / Oil paintings
Date
1660 - 1699
Materials
Oil on canvas
Measurements
1245 x 1016 mm (49 x 40 in)
Place of origin
England
Order this imageCollection
Lyme, Cheshire
NT 500035
Summary
Oil painting on canvas, Susanna Sanderson, Mrs Peter Vansittart (d.1725), British (English) School, late 17th century. Manner of Wissing. A three-quarter length portrait of a young woman, seated, facing, head slightly to right gazing at the spectator, brown hair dressed in curls at front, a long tress hanging over her right shoulder, wearing a red flowered wrap-over dress lined with striped cream silk, crossing at the front to form a V-neck, short sleeves, a white chemise beneath, a jewel at her bosom, her left arm around a brown and white whippet on her lap, her right hand fingering the hair on her shoulder. Set in an interior, red velvet drapery behind her, on the left a pillar and landscape.
Provenance
Bequest of Lady Sarita Enriqueta Vansittart (d. 1985)
Marks and inscriptions
M[rs] Peter Vansittart / (gold paint lower right)
Makers and roles
manner of Willem Wissing (Amsterdam 1656 - Burghley House 1687), publisher previously catalogued as by British (English) School, publisher