Margaret Luttrell, Mrs Henry Fownes Luttrell (1726-1766)
Richard Phelps (Porlock c.1710 - Porlock 1785)
Category
Art / Oil paintings
Date
circa 1750
Materials
Oil on canvas
Measurements
1440 x 1200 x 85 mm
Place of origin
England
Order this imageCollection
Dunster Castle, Somerset
NT 726091
Summary
Oil painting on canvas, Margaret Luttrell, Mrs Fownes Luttrell (1726 - 1766) by Richard Phelps (Porlock c.1710 - Porlock 1785), signed R. Phelps Pinx..t. A three-quarter-length portrait, slightly right, wearing a blue dress and white surcoat with pearl rope and head ornament, standing under a column, her right arm resting on a carved and gilt console. Companion picture to 726090 (DC/P/28).
Provenance
In Dunster Castle inventory, 1910, p.40 as in Morning Room; and thence by descent; previously on loan, 1975; gift of Lt-Col Geoffrey Walter Fownes Luttrell (1919 – 2007) to the National Trust in 1981
Credit line
Dunster Castle, The Luttrell Collection (National Trust)
Marks and inscriptions
Signed - R.Phelps Pinx..t
Makers and roles
Richard Phelps (Porlock c.1710 - Porlock 1785), artist
References
Lyte 1909 Sir H. C. Maxwell Lyte, History of Dunster, and of the families of Mohun & Luttrell. London 1909, p. 227