A Young Woman called Margaret Legh, Lady Arden
British (English) School
Category
Art / Oil paintings
Date
circa 1645 - circa 1655
Materials
Oil on canvas
Measurements
1257 x 1016 mm (49 ½ x 40 in)
Place of origin
England
Order this imageCollection
Lyme, Cheshire
NT 500447
Summary
Oil painting on lined canvas, A Young Woman called Margaret Legh, Lady Arden, British (English) School, circa 1645-55. A three-quarter-length-portrait, turned to the left, looking out; dressed in black, with a fur stole over her shoulders and capacious falling white silk sleeves; her left hand – with a ring on her wedding finger – on her right breast, her left hand fingering pink roses on a stone ledge, lower left; a wall behind her on the right, a landscape on the left.
Provenance
Accepted by HM Government in Lieu of Inheritance Tax and allocated to the National Trust, 2011. Probably by descent and inheritance to William John Legh, 1st Lord Newton (1828– 1898); 1879 inventory, p.34: Dining Room, ‘A Lady’; Thomas, 2nd Lord Newton (1857 – 1942); 1929 inventory, p.16: Dining Room, ‘A ¾ length portrait of Margaret second daughter of Doctor Thomas Legh married Sir J. Arden of Harden (Georgian School canvas measuring 39 ½ ins. by 48 ½ ins.)’; Richard, 5th Lord Newton (b.1950), and his brother, the Hon. David Legh (b.1951); accepted by HM Government in lieu of inheritance tax and allocated to the National Trust, 2011.
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
Back, on a piece of the previous lining canvas, tacked to top member of stretcher: Family Portrait / name unknown; and in pencil on the stretcher's lining-paper: No 20; and: Stag Parlour End [ne] ar Window Frame, on top member of stretcher, in black (same script as on back of canvas): No 20; in blue chalk: 31 Frame label: MARGARET 2ND. DAUGHTER OF DR. THOMAS LEGH. / BORN 1637, MARRIED 1654 / SIR J. ARDEN OF HARDEN
Makers and roles
British (English) School, artist