Eleanor Brownlow, Viscountess Tyrconnel (1691-1730)

Charles Jervas (Dublin 1675 – London 1739). Oil painting on canvas, Eleanor Brownlow, Viscountess Tyrconnel (1691-1730) by Charles Jervas (Dublin 1675 – London 1739). Three-quarter length portrait of a young woman, facing, head inclined slightly to the right, gazing at the spectator holding up a sprig of flowersin her left hand and with a basket of flowers hung from her right arm. She had long brown hair, and is wearing a a white satin dress beneath a red sleevless jacket which is laced down the front. She is standing on a terrace with a formal garden behind. Inscribed bottom left: VISCOUNTESSE TYRCNNEL (sic)/JERVAS. FECT. Eleanor Brownlow, Viscountess Tyrconnel (1691-1730), was the youngest daughter of ‘Young’ Sir John Brownlow, 3rd Bt (1659-1697) (the builder of Belton)and Alice Sherard (1659-1721); married her cousin Sir John Brownlow, 5th Bt, Viscount Tyrconnel and Baron Clarkville (1690-1754). Though the 'pretyest of them all', the only one not to be wed by her mother to a nobleman, despite being courted by Lord Raby. Yet in the event, her husband and cousin whose 1st wife she became, in 1712 was created Viscount Tyrconnel Belton House, Lincolnshire (Accredited Museum)