Red Chalk Portrait Drawing The Hon. Lucy Sherard Circa.1700 oilpainting Irish School

Irish School

Watercolour study of a Ferret

Cyril and Shirley Fry Collection

Slight loss to upper right margin

Red Chalk Portrait Drawing The Hon. Lucy Sherard Circa.1700 oilpainting Irish SchoolLate 17th. Century British School Red Chalk drawing of a young woman identifiable as The Honourable Lucy Sherard (1685 1751). Daughter of Bennett 2nd Lord Sherard. She was the second wife of the 2nd Duke of Rutland whom she married in 1713. Dateable to Circa. 1700 this drawing may given the age and scale possibly be JI Smiths preparatory drawing for his Mezzotint engraving after the original painting by Sir Godfrey Kneller at Belvoir Castle. Some