Called Elizabeth Palmer, Lady Wroth (d. before 1672)
Sir Peter Lely (Soest 1618 – London 1680)
Category
Art / Oil paintings
Date
1650 - 1655 - 1670 (bears date)
Materials
Oil on canvas
Measurements
1270 x 991 mm (50 x 39 in)
Place of origin
England
Order this imageCollection
Killerton, Devon
NT 922271
Summary
Oil painting on canvas, Called Elizabeth Palmer, Lady Wroth (d. before 1672) by Sir Peter Lely (1618-1680), circa 1650-55. A three-quarter-length portrait of the daughter of Colonel Peregrine Palmer and wife of Sir Thomas Wroth (1584 - 1672) as a middle-aged woman, standing, turned to the left; gazing at spectator, her pale brown hair drawn tightly back at the forehead with shoulder length curls on either side of her face. Her hands are clasped around her waist. She is wearing a pearl necklet and a copper green silk dress with full long sleeves revealing a white silk lining. She also wears a pink mantle draped over her shoulders. A wooded scene behind with a tree just behind her and a distant landscape view with sky, through the trees to the left.
Provenance
By inheritance, through Cecily Wroth, wife of Sir Hugh Acland, 6th Bt; accepted in lieu by HM Government and transferred to the National Trust in 1995
Credit line
Killerton, The Acland Collection (accepted in lieu by HM Government and transferred to The National Trust in 1995)
Marks and inscriptions
Recto: Inscribed, bottom left, in house style: Lady Wrothe, Daugr of Col. Palmer / and Mother of Sir Thomas Wrothe / 1670.
Makers and roles
Sir Peter Lely (Soest 1618 – London 1680), artist