Elizabeth Folliott, Mrs Samuel Powell (d.1725) (after Kneller)
Elizabeth Folliott Powell
Category
Art / Oil paintings
Date
1883
Materials
Oil on canvas
Measurements
730 x 610 mm (28 3/4 x 24 in)
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Mompesson House, Wiltshire
NT 724323
Summary
Oil painting on canvas, Elizabeth Folliott, Mrs Samuel Powell (d.1725) (after Kneller) by Elizabeth Folliott Powell after Sir Godfrey Kneller (Lübeck 1646 - London 1723), 1883. A painted oval portrait of the painter's mother. She is looking slightly to the right wearing a low cut maroon dress with large billowing sleeves and a dark blue cover over her right sleeve.
Provenance
Bequest of Colonel Richard ffolliot Willis, 1956, formerly lent to Lydiard Tregoze, Swindon; transferred to Mompesson House (given to National Trust by Denis Martineau (d. 1975) in 1952), 1984
Credit line
Mompesson House, The Colonel Richard ffolliot Willis Bequest (National Trust)
Makers and roles
Elizabeth Folliott Powell, copyist after Sir Godfrey Kneller (Lübeck 1646 - London 1723), artist
References
Waterhouse 1980: Ellis K. Waterhouse, 'The Willis Family Portraits at Lydiard Park' National Trust Studies, 1980, pp.49-53, p.53: "The remaining portraits in Colonel [Richard ffolliott] Willis's bequest, which include three which go back to the seventeenth century, were inherited from his mother, who was Rose Elizabeth ffolliott Powell. They seem to have been remotely inherited from the last Lord Folliott of Ballyshannon, an Irish peerage which became extinct in 1716.