Alice Spencer, Lady Lucy (d.1648)
British (English) School
Category
Art / Oil paintings
Date
circa 1622
Materials
Oil on canvas
Measurements
1270 x 1016 mm (50 x 40 in)
Place of origin
England
Order this imageCollection
Charlecote Park, Warwickshire
NT 533821
Summary
Oil painting on canvas, Alice Spencer, Lady Lucy (d.1648), British (English) School, previously, after Cornelius Janssen van Ceulen, Cornelis Johnson (London 1593 - Utrecht 1661). A three-quarter-length portrait of Lady Alice Spencer Lucy, the wife of Sir Thomas Lucy (after the large family portrait 533841). She is seated in a studded, wooden armchair, faced and looking to the right with her left hand resting on her waist and right hand resting on her knee. Dressed in black with white lace cuffs and white lace ruff to the neck. Gold ornate chain and dark blue brooch on left breast. Framed in a rectangular gilded wooden frame. This is one of a pair with the portrait of her husband Sir Thomas Lucy (533820). Lady Alice Spencer Lucy was the daughter of Thomas Spencer of Claverdon, and Aunt to the great 1st Duke of Marlborough.
Provenance
Presented to the National Trust by Sir Montgomerie Fairfax-Lucy (1896 – 1965), two years after the death of his father, Sir Henry Ramsay-Fairfax, 3rd Bt (1870 – 1944), with Charlecote Park and its chief contents, in 1946
Credit line
Charlecote Park, The Fairfax-Lucy Collection (National Trust)
Makers and roles
British (English) School, artist after Cornelius Johnson (London 1593 - Utrecht 1661), artist previously catalogued as attributed to Cornelius Johnson (London 1593 - Utrecht 1661), artist