Frances Whitmore, Lady Myddelton (1666-1694)

studio of Sir Godfrey Kneller (Lübeck 1646/9 - London 1723). Oil painting on canvas, Frances Whitmore, Lady Myddelton (1666-1694), studio of Sir Godfrey Kneller (Lübeck 1646 - London 1723), 1686. A three-quarter length portrait, of a young woman, seated, frontally, gazing at the spectator wearing a décolleté gold dress with a blue – originally green? – cloak and holding a sprig of blossom. She is resting her left elbow on a putto-figured vase containing an orange tree. It is possibly a wedding portrait. Behind her on the left is a garden terrace. Identical to CHI/P/27 of Princess Anne. She was the daughter of Sir Thomas Whitmore and Frances Brooke, one of Lely's 'Windsor Beauties' and wife of Sir Richard Myddelton 3rd Bt. Chirk Castle, Wrexham (Accredited Museum)