Mary Osbaldeston, Lady Wrothe (1678-before 1721)

Michael Dahl (Stockholm 1656/9 – London 1743). Oil painting on canvas, Mary Osbaldeston, Lady Wrothe (1678-before 1721) by Michael Dahl (1656-1743), inscribed and dated 1700, but is more likely to be 1710 Inscriptions reads: Lady Wrothe Daugr and Heiress / of Francis Osbaldiston Esqr / 1700. Portrait of a young woman, three-quarter length, facing, gazing at the spectator, seated in architectural interior. She has dark brown hair worn high on the head with a ringlet falling on her right shoulder. She wears an orange-gold wrap-around décolleté dress revealing a white chemise. Her blue cloak/scarf which she holds up with her right hand, is draped below her right elbow which rests on a stone ledge and falls across her right knee. Her left hand lies across her lap. Daughter of Francis Osbaldeston, (1678) and the wife of Sir Thomas Wroth(e), 3rd & last Bt. (1673/4-1721). (KIL/P/28 & L/KIL/P/49) Killerton, Devon (Accredited Museum)