Eleanor Brownlow, Viscountess Tyrconnel (1691-1730)

Michael Dahl (Stockholm 1656/9 – London 1743). Oil painting on canvas (oval), Eleanor Brownlow, Viscountess Tyrconnel (1691-1730) by Michael Dahl (Stockholm 1656/9 – London 1743). An oval half-length portrait of a young woman, turned slightly to the right, with her head turned slightly to left and gazing to the left, long brown hair, which falls over her right shoulder, wearing a low-cut red dress over a cream chemise aand with a green mantle draped over her right shoulder. Eleanor Brownlow, Viscountess Tyrconnel (1691-1730), was the youngest and 5th daughter of ‘Young’ Sir John Brownlow, 3rd Bt (1659-1697) (the builder of Belton)and Alice Sherard (1659-1721); married her cousin Sir John Brownlow, 5th Bt, Viscount Tyrconnel and Baron Clarkville (1690-1754). Though the 'pretyest of them all', the only one not to be wed by her mother to a nobleman, despite being courted by Lord Raby. Yet in the event, her husband and cousin whose 1st wife she became, in 1712 was created Viscount Tyrconnel Belton House, Lincolnshire (Accredited Museum)