Francis Wolryche (1563-1614)
British (English) School
Category
Art / Oil paintings
Date
1591 (inscribed and dated) - 1669
Materials
Oil on canvas in a wooden frame
Measurements
1130 x 940 mm (44 1/2 x 37 in)
Place of origin
England
Order this imageCollection
Dudmaston, Shropshire
NT 814137
Summary
Oil painting on canvas, Francis Wolryche (1563-1614), British (English) School, mid-17th century. Inscribed and dated (see NT 814153 from which this was probably copied and enlarged into a three-quarter length) (upper left): GLORIA Te mea mens sequitur AN DNI: 1591 (upper right): FELICITAS Tecum mea vota quiefeunt AETATIS SVAE: 28. A three-quarter length portrait of Francis Wolryche (1563-1614), the son of William Wolryche and father of Sir Thomas Wolryche as a young man aged 28, turned slightly to the left, gazing at the spectator, wearing armour, holding a baton in his right hand, his left hand resting on a helmet. He stands in front of an inscribed draped pillar, a landscape with a lone pine tree beyond to the left. His lace collar is embroidered with winged hearts, from the top of which rays issue, in gold.
Provenance
Dudmaston collection; given by Rachel Katherine Hamilton Russell, Lady Labouchere (1908 – 1996) along with the Dudmaston estate in 1978
Credit line
Dudmaston, The Labouchere Collection (National Trust)
Marks and inscriptions
GLORIA Te mea mens sequitur AN DNI 1591; FELICITAS Tecum mea vota quiefeunt AETATIS SVAE 28 (inscribed and dated)
Makers and roles
British (English) School, artist