An Unknown Middle-aged Woman (once called Agnes Wigham, Housekeeper)

British (English) School. Oil painting on canvas, An Unknown Middle-aged Woman (once called Agnes Wigham, Housekeeper ), British (English) School, circa 1650. A head-and-shoulders portrait of a middle-aged woman, turned slightly to the right, gazing at the spectator, wearing a black dress with a double plain white muslin pointed collar, with white starched lace coif. Dark brown, natural, curly hair falls in locks on her shoulders, she has blue-grey eyes. Once thought to be a portrait of Agnes Whigham, nee Buckley, housekeeper to Sir Richard Bedingfeld, 4th Bart, however she did not begin service at Oxburgh until 1768, more than a century after this portrait was painted. Oxburgh Hall, Norfolk (Accredited Museum)