Called 'Lady' Lucy Booth, but possibly Mary Oldbury, Countess of Warrington (c.1680/5 - 1740)
manner of Sir Godfrey Kneller (Lübeck 1646 - London 1723)
Category
Art / Oil paintings
Date
circa 1696 - 1700
Materials
Oil on canvas
Measurements
1270 x 1016 mm (50 x 40 in)
Order this imageCollection
Lanhydrock, Cornwall
NT 884941
Summary
Oil painting on canvas, Called 'Lady' Lucy Booth, but possibly Mary Oldbury, Countess of Warrington (c.1680/5 - 1740), manner of Sir Godfrey Kneller, Bt (Lübeck 1646 - London 1723), circa 1696 - 1700. A three-quarter length portrait of probably Mary Oldbury, the wife of the 2nd Earl of Warrington, seated, facing, her right hand across her lap, her left hand to her breast, wearing blue cloak and red dress over a white chemise.
Provenance
by descent, until given by Gerald, 7th Viscount Clifden (1883 - 1966), with the transfer of the house to the National Trust in 1953
Credit line
Lanhydrock, The Robartes Collection (The National Trust)
Marks and inscriptions
Recto: (on gilt label on frame ) Lady Lucy Booth./KNELLER Recto: Frame label: Lady Lucy Booth./KNELLER Verso: In ink on label attached to cross bar of stretcher, in a late 19th-centiry hand: Rt. Hon. The Lady Lucy Booth / sister to Charles Earl of Radnor, / wife of George Booth Esq., / brother to Henry Earl of Warrington / she died June 1716 Verso: in ink, on old labels: No 8 and Lord Robartes
Makers and roles
manner of Sir Godfrey Kneller (Lübeck 1646 - London 1723), artist