Rebecca French, Baroness Folliott of Ballyshannon (d. 1695)
manner of Cornelius Johnson (London 1593 - Utrecht 1661)
Category
Art / Oil paintings
Date
1630 - 1669
Materials
Oil on canvas
Measurements
711 x 572 mm (28 x 22 1/2 in)
Place of origin
England
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Mompesson House, Wiltshire
NT 724326
Summary
Oil painting on canvas, Rebecca French, Baroness Folliott of Ballyshannon (d. 1695), manner of Cornelius Johnson (London 1593 - Utrecht 1661), mid 17th century. A half-length portrait, looking to the left, of the daughter of Patrick French Esq (1583-166?) of Dungar (French Park), Co. Roscommon.
Provenance
Bequeathed by Colonel Richard ffolliot Willis, 1956, formerly lent to Lydiard Tregoze, Swindon; transferred to Mompesson House, which was given to National Trust by Denis Martineau (d. 1975) in 1952, in 1984.
Credit line
Mompesson House, The Colonel Richard ffolliot Willis Collection (National Trust)
Makers and roles
manner of Cornelius Johnson (London 1593 - Utrecht 1661), 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.