Frances Stovin, Mrs James White Worsley Pennyman (1792-1869)
Mary Ellen Best (1809 - 1891)
Category
Art / Drawings and watercolours
Date
1839 (signed and dated)
Materials
Bird's eye maple, Paper
Measurements
340 x 270 mm
Order this imageCollection
Ormesby Hall, Redcar and Cleveland
NT 707927
Summary
A watercolour portrait of Frances Stovin, Mrs James White Worsley Pennyman (1792-1869) by Mary Ellen Best, dated 1839. Portrait of a lady, seated, three quarter length, her dark hair braided and in ringlets, wearing a white muslin dress with fichu and gold chain. Her right arm rests on a circular table. Signed and dated June 1839. Watercolour on paper in a birds eye maple frame.
Provenance
Previously at Ormesby- see note above.
Makers and roles
Mary Ellen Best (1809 - 1891), artist