Isabella Stapleton, Lady Pennington

British (English) School. Oil painting on canvas, Isabella Stapleton, Lady Pennington, English School, circa 1675-85. A half-length portrait, wearing a white blouse and blue robe. Although labelled Margaret Pennington, an unmarried sister of Thomas Peter Strickland’s second wife, who lived much later than this portrait, another portrait of the same sitter at Muncaster Castle enables her to be recognised as the elder daughter and coheir of John Stapleton, of Warter, Yorkshire, and the wife of Sir William Pennington, 1st Bt (1655–1730), of Muncaster. Their daughter Elizabeth married Thomas Peter Strickland. Sizergh Castle, Cumbria