Frances Richmond (1774-1850)
British (English) School
Category
Art / Oil paintings
Date
circa 1780
Materials
Oil on canvas
Measurements
406 x 343 mm (16 x 13 1/2 in)
Order this imageCollection
Mompesson House, Wiltshire
NT 724327
Summary
Oil painting on canvas, Frances Richmond (1774-1850), British (English) School, circa 1780. An rectangular-framed oval half-length portrait of Frances, daughter of Dr Henry Richmond, as a young girl. She has short hair and looks slightly to the left in a white dress with a blue sash over her left shoulder set against a golden background.
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 ffolliott Willis Collection (National Trust)
Makers and roles
British (English) School, 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.