An Unknown Young Girl, possibly Elizabeth Ord, later Lady Blackett

British (English) School. Oil painting on canvas, An Unknown Young Girl, possibly Elizabeth Ord, later Lady Blackett, British (English) School. circa 1710-1720. Inscribed: later 18th century, with name of sitter, centre r.: FRANCES. Daugr. of Hry. THOMPSON./of Esholt. A painted oval half-length portrait of a young girl, facing, gazing at the spectator in a white dress and pink cloak. Inscribed (relatively late) as a portrait of Frances, daughter of Henry Thompson of Esholt, the wife of Sir Walter Calverley, Kt. (?1691), of whom there is a portrait as a widow in the Needlework Room. This is clearly impossible. It is most probable that she is either Elizabeth Ord (?1759) the natural daughter and heiress of Sir William Blackett, 2nd Bart., and the wife of Sir Walter Calverley Blackett, or the latter's sister, Julia Calverley (1706-68), the wife of Sir George Trevelyan, 3rd Bart. Of the two, Elizabeth Ord, as Sir William's one and only, much-cherished child, is the more likely to have been painted as a little girl; but, because she was illegitimate, she would have been more quickly forgotten. Wallington, Northumberland (Accredited Museum)