Julia Conyers, Lady Blackett (d.1722)
attributed to Enoch Seeman the younger (Gdańsk c.1694 – London 1744)
Category
Art / Oil paintings
Date
circa 1705
Materials
Oil on canvas in wood frame
Measurements
1440 x 1185 x 55 mm
Place of origin
England
Order this imageCollection
Wallington, Northumberland
NT 584405
Summary
Oil painting on canvas, Julia Conyers, Lady Blackett (d.1722), attributed to Enoch Seeman the younger (Gdańsk c.1694 – London 1744), inscribed: in 18th century hand with name of sitter, bottom right: Iulia dr: of Sr XrConyers/1st: m.1684, 1st. Sr: Wm: Blackett/of Wallington./2nd: 1711 Sr: Wm.. Thompson. Kt./Baron of the Exchequer. A three-quarter-length portrait of a woman, seated, facing, head turned slightly to the left, gazing at the spectator, dark brown hair with a ringlet on her left shoulder searing an off white satin dress, her left arm resting on a marble topped table.
Provenance
Given with the property to the National Trust in 1941 by Sir Charles Philips Trevelyan, 3rd Bt (1870-1958)
Credit line
Wallington, The Trevelyan Collection (National Trust)
Marks and inscriptions
Top left of frame, rear side: 'Lady Blackett' (later inscription with name of sitter) Top left of frame, rear side: 'WOMAN' Top middle of frame, rear side: N.WE
Makers and roles
attributed to Enoch Seeman the younger (Gdańsk c.1694 – London 1744), artist