Barbara Bellasis, Mrs Walter Strickland (c. 1645 - 1708)
John Riley (London 1646 – London 1691)
Category
Art / Oil paintings
Date
circa 1690
Materials
Oil on canvas
Measurements
1240 x 1005 mm
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Sizergh Castle, Cumbria
NT 998425
Summary
Oil painting on canvas, Barbara Bellasis, Mrs Walter Strickland (c. 1645 - 1708) by John Riley (London 1646 – London 1691), circa 1690. A three-quarter-length seated portrait, in oyster coloured dress with red cloak, leaning on large urn. Sister of Thomas 2nd Lord Fauconberg, wife of Walter Strickland. She married firstly Sir Marmaduke Dalton of Hauxwell. Gilt frame. The seventh daughter of the Hon. Henry Bellasis and Grace Barton, and sister of Thomas, 2nd Viscount Fauconberg. She was married to the former royal page and mayor of Ripon, Walter Strickland (c.1628–71), Sir Robert’s second son, for just a year before his death, bearing him one daughter, Dorothy, who married William Grimston. She was married again, in 1676/7, to Sir Marmaduke Dalton, to whom she bore three more daughters.
Provenance
Presumably one of the pictures originally belonging to Mary of Modena that passed to Winifred Trentham, Lady Strickland, and thus back to the family at Sizergh; if not – especially given the old misidentification of the sitter as the Abbé Strickland, Bishop of Namur – might it have been acquired at the Earl of Oxford’s sale in 1741/2?; Given by Henry Hornyold Strickland (1890 – 1975) with Sizergh Castle and its estates in 1950
Makers and roles
John Riley (London 1646 – London 1691), artist