Francisca Elizabeth Brooke, later Mrs Sylvester Richmond (1678 -1770) as a Child
British (English) School
Category
Art / Oil paintings
Date
circa 1680
Materials
Oil on canvas
Measurements
445 x 317 mm (17 1/2 x 12 1/2 in)
Place of origin
England
Order this imageCollection
Mompesson House, Wiltshire
NT 724328
Summary
Oil painting on canvas, Francisca Elizabeth Brooke, later Mrs Sylvester Richmond (1678 - 1770) as a Child, British (English) School. A half-length portrait of a young child, turned to the left, gazing at the spectator, wearing a white gown which has slipped off her left shoulder and a yellow shawl which she wears over her right shoulder and over her left arm. Third daughter of Sir Richard Brooke, 2nd Bt of Norton.
Provenance
Bequest of Col. Richard ffolliot Willis, 1956 formerly lent to Lydiard Tregoze, Swindon; transferred to Mompesson House, 1984.
Credit line
Mompesson House, The Colonel Richard ffolliot Willis Collection (National Trust)
Makers and roles
British (English) School, artist Mary Beale (Barrow 1633 – London 1699), 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.