Yale Center for British Art

Creator:: Sir Peter Lely, 1618–1680, Dutch, active in England (from 1643)
Title:: Lady Frances Savile, Later Lady Brudenell
Date:: ca. 1668
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 30 1/4 x 25 1/8 inches (76.8 x 63.8 cm)
Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:: Inscribed in artist's hand, yellow paint, lower left: “Frances Lady Brudenel"
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Copyright Status:: Public Domain
Accession Number:: B1973.1.37
Classification:: Paintings
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Subject Terms:: pearls | woman | oval | costume | jewelry | portrait
Currently On View:: Not on view
Publications:: Malcolm Cormack, Concise Catalogue of Paintings in the Yale Center for British Art, Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT, 1985, pp. 146-147, N590.2 .A83 (YCBA)
Gallery Label:: Lady Frances (d. 1695) was the daughter of Thomas Lennard, fifteenth Lord Dacre (later Earl of Sussex), and his second wife Anne, who was the illegitimate daughter of King Charles II and one of his powerful mistresses, Barbara Villiers, Duchess of Cleveland (ca. 1640-1709). Lady Frances and her husband Francis, Lord Brudenell, became further entangled in the King's affairs when their daughter married the grandee Charles Lennox, first Duke of Richmond and Lennox (1672-1723), who was himself the illegitimate son of Charles and another of his official mistresses, Louise Renée de Penancoët de Kéroualle, duchess of Portsmouth (1649-1734). Lady Frances died suddenly of apoplexy in Sussex. Gallery label for installation of YCBA collection, 2005
Link:: https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:136