Lady Anne Clifford, Countess of Dorset and Countess of Pembroke and Montgomery (1590-1676)
British (English) School
Category
Art / Oil paintings
Date
circa 1620
Materials
Oil on panel
Measurements
750 x 620 mm
Place of origin
England
Order this imageCollection
Nostell Priory, West Yorkshire
NT 959447
Summary
Oil painting on panel, Lady Anne Clifford, Countess of Dorset and Countess of Pembroke and Montgomery (1590-1676), British (English) School, circa 1620. A half-length portrait of a woman, in a painted oval, turned slightly to the right, with her head turned to face the viewer. She wears a dress patterened with oak leaves and acorns, and a white lace ruff.
Provenance
Brockwell, 1915 quotes from the entry on the painting from the Athenaeum, 2 October 1880, p.440: ‘Apparently the female portrait purchased for £55 on 23 March 1854, When a receipt was given by Edward Major “for two portraits, male and female, said to be by Cornelius Janson”; purchased by the National Trust by private treaty sale from Lord St Oswald in 2010
Credit line
Nostell Priory, The St Oswald Collection (National Trust)
Makers and roles
British (English) School, artist possibly Paul Van Somer (c.1577/8 - 1621/2), artist previously catalogued as circle of Marcus Gheeraerts the Younger (Bruges 1561/2 - London 1636), artist previously catalogued as attributed to Cornelius Johnson (London 1593 - Utrecht 1661), artist
References
Brockwell 1915 Maurice Walter Brockwell, Catalogue of the Pictures and Other Works of Art in the Collection of Lord St Oswald at Nostell Priory, London 1915, no.29 Town 2018 Edward Town, ‘The Owl in the Desert: Lady Anne Clifford at Knole, 1609-1624’, National Trust Historic Houses & Collections Annual, 2018, pp.16-17 Conroy, Rachel, Women Artists and Designers at the National Trust, 2025, p. 24