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John Vanderbank, Martha Lowth
Photo courtesy of Dave Penman (All rights reserved)
Details
- Country House
- Doddington Hall
- Title(s)
- Martha Lowth
- Date
- c.1720–30
- Location
- Ground Floor, Bottom Of Stairs & Lower Staircase To First Floor
- Medium and support
- Oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- Overall height: 74 cm, Overall width: 62 cm
- Artist
- John Vanderbank (1694-1739)
- Catalogue Number
- DN32
Bibliography
R.E.G. Cole, History of Doddington, otherwise Doddington-Pigot, in the County of Lincoln, and its successive owners, with pedigrees, Lincoln : James Williamson, 1897, p. 221
Footnotes
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Oliver Millar Notebook PMC: VIII, 193, Paul Mellon Centre Collection.
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Description
The portrait depicts Martha Lowth, daughter of William Lowth (1660–1732). She married Robert Eden DD (1701–1759) (DN29) and was the mother of Mary Eden (DN59). Oliver Millar, who inspected the portrait in 1952, noted: ‘Martha Louth: obscurely signed and dated: bust to l. front in a painted oval; in yellow with blue cloak: typical and unimportant’.1 The signature and date mentioned by Millar are no longer visible to the naked eye.