Alicia Brownlow, Lady Guilford (1684-1727)

Charles d'Agar (Paris 1669 – London 1723). Oil painting on canvas, Alicia Brownlow, Lady Guilford (1684-1727) by Charles d'Agar (Paris 1669 – London 1723), inscribed, erroneously, lower left: ALICE SHERARD WIFE/OF SR. JN. BROWNLOWE. A three-quarter-length portrait of a young woman, seated, gazing at the spectator, dark hair, a tress falling on her right shoulder, wearing a red cross-over dress over a white chemise and a blue mantle draped over her right shoulder and falling to the right and left. Daughter of ‘Young’ Sir John Brownlow (1659-1697) 3rd Bt and Alice Sherard (1659-1721). She married Francis North, 2nd Baron Guilford (1637-1685), son of Francis North, 1st Baron Guilford and Lady Frances Pope, circa 8 July 1703. She died on 22 August 1727. Their son was Francis North, 2nd Baron Guilford (1673-1729) Belton House, Lincolnshire (Accredited Museum)