George Gower, ca. 1538–1596, Britishformerly John Bettes the Younger, died 1616, British
Title:
Frances Brydges (née Clinton), Lady Chandos
Date:
1579
Materials & Techniques:
Oil on panel
Dimensions:
35 7/8 x 27 inches (91.1 x 68.6 cm)
Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
Inscribed in yellow paint, upper right: "AETATIS SU"
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Copyright Status:
Public Domain
Accession Number:
B1973.1.3
Classification:
Paintings
Collection:
Paintings and Sculpture
Subject Terms:
coat of arms | portrait | dog (animal) | cameo | costume | lace | chain | woman | pearl | Tudor | crest | gold | fabric
Currently On View:
Not on view
Publications:
Steeve O. Buckridge, African Lace - Bark in the Caribbean : The Construction of Race, Class and Gender, London, New York, 2016, p. 61, fig. 2.6, GN432 B84 2016Malcolm Cormack, Concise Catalogue of Paintings in the Yale Center for British Art, Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT, 1985, pp. 22-23, N590.2 A83 (YCBA)The Burlington Magazine, 162, The Burlington Magazine Publications Ltd., London, 1948-, p. 733, fig. 5, N1 B87 Oversize (YCBA)Edward Town, George Gower: Portraitist, Mercer, Serjeant Painter, Burlington Magazine, vol.162, September 2020, p. 733, fig. 5, N1 B87 v.162 + (YCBA)Ian Tyers, The tree-ring analysis of 23 panel paintings from the Yale Center for British Art , New Haven : dendrochronological consultancy report 470, , Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, 2011, pp. 13, 16, 17, 18-22, 38, 81, fig. 3, CC78.3 .T94 2011 (YCBA)
Gallery Label:
Frances Clinton (d. 1623), was the fifth daughter of Edward Clinton, 1st Earl of Lincoln, and the wife of Giles Brydges (1548-1594), 3rd Baron Chandos of Sudeley Castle, Gloucestershire, where Queen Elizabeth visited Lord and Lady Chandos twice, in 1576 and 1592. Gallery label for installation of YCBA collection, 2005