A Lady of the Carr or Bennet Family
style of Sir Godfrey Kneller (Lübeck 1646 - London 1723)
Category
Art / Oil paintings
Date
circa 1675 - circa 1685
Materials
Oil on canvas
Measurements
1270 x 1016 mm (50 x 40 in)
Place of origin
England
Order this imageCollection
Ickworth, Suffolk
NT 851814
Summary
Oil painting on canvas, Elizabeth Bennet, Lady Carr (d.1696) in the manner of Sir Peter Lely (Soest 1618 – London 1680). Three-quarter-length portrait of a woman, seated to left, right arm on balustrade, wearing a brown dress over white blouse and blue cloak; jewelled brooch at neck and clasp on left sleeve. Dark background.
Provenance
If the sitter was indeed a member of either the Carr or Bennet family, then presumably by descent from Isabella Carr, Mrs John Hervey, to the Earls and Marquesses of Bristol, until after the death of the 4th Marquess (1863-1951), when accepted in lieu of tax by HM Treasury, as an element of the estate, house, and majority of its contents, in 1956, and transferred to the National Trust
Credit line
Ickworth, The Bristol Collection (acquired through the National Land Fund and transferred to The National Trust in 1956)
Makers and roles
style of Sir Godfrey Kneller (Lübeck 1646 - London 1723), artist manner of Sir Peter Lely (Soest 1618 – London 1680), artist previously catalogued as attributed to John Riley (London 1646 – London 1691), artist
References
Farrer 1908 Edmund Farrer, Portraits in Suffolk Houses (West), 1908, no. 9 Collins Baker 1912 C. H. Collins Baker, Lely and the Stuart Portrait Painters, London, 1912, vol.II: p.31