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Portrait of Frances, Third Wife of the Fourth Lord Byron

Artist: Michael Dahl (1659 - 1743)

Location: Newstead Abbey

Date: 1720

Materials: oil on canvas

Dimensions: 127 x 102 cm

Grant:

Amount Paid: £4,625 (Total: £18,500)

Vendor: Historical Portraits Ltd

Review number: 3922 (1993)

Provenance:
William, 4th Lord Byron; by descent to Ralph Gordon, 2nd earl of Lovelace at Ockham Park, Surrey; his sale Christie's, London 12/1/42, lot36; Private collection, U.S.A.

Description:
Lady Byron was the great grandmother of the poet Byron who referred to this portrait in a letter to his sister of August 1805.

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