Thomas VAN DER WILT (1659-1733) "Portrait of Noble Woman"

19th-century Spanish School: "Portrait of a Musketeer," HSP. (chip on the cartouche). Dimensions: 80 x 59 cm. good condition

English School 17th Century "Portrait of George Villiers Duke of Buckingham" Oil on canvas 66X53 cm size without frame George Villiers, 1st Duke of Buckingham (Brooksby, 28 August 1...

17th century Dutch School of Peter NASON. "Portrait of a woman with Cupid". Oil on canvas. Dim. 76 x 63 cm. with frame: 86cm x 73cm good condition

European school oil on canvas of 20th century Measures: 72 x 62 cm and 39 x 30 cm Good condition.

Jan van der Vaart (1647-1727) Portrait of Dorothy, Lady Brownlow (1664-1700) Oil on canvas; held in a period carved wood frame circa 1687 Considered a beauty of the age, Dorothy, Lady Brownlow was painted on a number of occasions by some of the most talented and respected artists of the day; Kneller, Riley, Closterman, Dahl and Wissing, all rendered her features in oil for posterity. The portrait presented here is by Jan van der Vaart who from 1685-1687 was employed by Willem Wissing as a drapery and landscape painter. After Wissing’s death in 1687 he practiced as an independent portraitist much in the style of his master with some influence also of Kneller. This work is in fact the head and shoulders taken from Wissing’s three-quarter length of Lady Brownlow which hangs at Belton House, Lincolnshire and produced as a mezzotint in 1687. Van der Vaart has made some intriguing alterations particularly as the sitter now looks directly at us, appearing rather more provocative and self assured of her beauty. The confident rendering of the dress and pearls and the thickly drawn copious hair are hallmarks of Van der Vaart’s work. It is likely he completed this portrait – shortly after Wissing’s version – as a smaller variant intended for another family member as was often the practice. Dorothy Mason married Sir William Brownlow 4th Bt. in July 1688; she was the daughter and heir of Sir Richard Mason a politician and courtier to Charles II who owned estates at Bishop’s Castle, Salop and Sutton Surrey. She came from, and married into extreme wealth; her dowry upon marriage was £10,000 and on her death her husband inherited the estates that were once her father’s. In June 1697 William Brownlow succeeded his brother to the baronetcy and to most of his landed estates including Belton House. In 1698 he abandoned his Peterborough seat to contest Bishop’s Castle on behalf of his wife and in the interest of his mother-in-law, Lady Anna Mason...

Capture the essence of 19th-century aristocratic elegance with this exquisite original oil portrait of a noblewoman, rendered in the traditional English School style. The sitter’s re...

Antique Oil on Board Portrait Painting of a Noble Woman, Giltwood Framed, C1880 Measures- 37.25"H x 31"W x 2"D

Pair of antique 19th century artist-signed hand painted miniature portraits of two lovers looking at each other from individual inlaid bone frames. Artist-signed J. Smont. The noble ...