Isabella Stapleton, Lady Pennington
British (English) School
Category
Art / Oil paintings
Date
circa 1675 - circa 1685
Materials
Oil on canvas
Measurements
740 x 610 mm
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Sizergh Castle, Cumbria
NT 998445
Summary
Oil painting on canvas, Isabella Stapleton, Lady Pennington, English School, circa 1675-85. A half-length portrait, wearing a white blouse and blue robe. Although labelled Margaret Pennington, an unmarried sister of Thomas Peter Strickland’s second wife, who lived much later than this portrait, another portrait of the same sitter at Muncaster Castle enables her to be recognised as the elder daughter and coheir of John Stapleton, of Warter, Yorkshire, and the wife of Sir William Pennington, 1st Bt (1655–1730), of Muncaster. Their daughter Elizabeth married Thomas Peter Strickland.
Provenance
Given by Henry Hornyold Strickland (1890 – 1975) with Sizergh Castle and its estates in 1950
Marks and inscriptions
Verso: Margaret Pennington daughter of Sir William Pennington,Bart,of Muncaster, County of Cumberland.died unmarried (inscibed on back of painting)
Makers and roles
British (English) School, artist possibly Henry Morland (fl.1675 - c.1700), artist