Cecilia Morley, Mrs Francis Osbaldeston
attributed to Michael Dahl (Stockholm 1659 - London 1743)
Category
Art / Oil paintings
Date
1700 (inscribed)
Materials
Oil on canvas
Measurements
1264 x 1024 mm (49.76 x 40.31 in)
Place of origin
England
Order this imageCollection
Killerton, Devon
NT 922284
Summary
Oil painting on canvas, Cecilia/Cicely Morley, Mrs Francis Osbaldeston, attributed to Michael Dahl (1656-1743), inscribed: Cecilia daug. of Sir John Morley / wife of Francis Osbaldiston Esqr / 1700. A three-quarter-length portrait of a middle-aged woman, seated, turned slightly towards the left, gazing at spectator, with her right arm on a plinth and her left hand in her lap. She has brown hair falling in a ringlet on her left shoulder. The sitter wears an orange-gold décolleté dress with a blue mantle draped on her left shoulder and spread on the seat beside her on the right. Dark background, with pink fringed drape discerned on the left. Daughter of Sir John Morley of Halfnaked, alias Halnaker, Sussex, sister of Sir William Morley, of the same, and the wife of Francis [wrongly called Thomas] Osbaldeston, of Aldersbrook, Essex.
Provenance
By inheritance, through Cecily Wroth, wife of Sir Hugh Acland, 6th Bt; (1910 MS cat., no.23, in the Dining Room (without attribution); until accepted in lieu by HM Government and transferred to the National Trust in 1995 as follower of John Riley
Credit line
Killerton, The Acland Collection (accepted in lieu by HM Government and transferred to The National Trust in 1995)
Marks and inscriptions
Bottom left (in house style: Inscribed: Cecilia Daugr. of Sr. John Morley / Wife of Francis Osbaldiston Esqr. / 1700
Makers and roles
attributed to Michael Dahl (Stockholm 1659 - London 1743), artist previously catalogued as follower of John Riley (London 1646 – London 1691), artist