Frances Margaret Taylor, Mrs William Crane Blathwayt (d.1844)

Thomas Phillips, RA (Dudley 1770 – London 1845). Oil painting on canvas, Frances Margaret Taylor, Mrs William Crane Blathwayt (d.1844) by Thomas Phillips, RA (Dudley 1770 – London 1845), 1832. A half-length portrait of Frances Margaret Taylor, wife of William Crane (1795-1839), who took the additional name Blathwayt in 1817 and inherited Dyrham Park. She is shown seated, in a landscape, wearing a brown dress with elaborate lace trimmings, long gloves, and a hat trimmed with white ostrich feathers. She rests her gloved right hand on her lap, in which she holds her left glove, and rests her left elbow on a cushion, holding her left hand up to her face. Dyrham, Gloucestershire (Accredited Museum)