Follower of John Michael Wright (circa 1617-1694)/Portrait of Countess Longford (died 1697) (nee

Follower of John Michael Wright (circa 1617-1694)/Portrait of Countess Longford (died 1697) (nee Anne Chichester)/half-length, wearing pearl earrings and a pearl necklace/feigned oval/oil on canvas, 73.5cm x 63.5cm/Note: The daughter of Arthur Chichester, 1st Earl of Donegall by his third wife Letitia Hicks, she married firstly John Butler, 1st Earl of Gowran and secondly Francis Aungier, 1st Earl of Longford/Literature: In one of the more colourful passages of 'A Cotswold Family' the portrait, erroneously attributed to Godfrey Kneller is described thus: 'there is a picture of a woman of Hicks lineage at Witcombe which makes the Saxon savage not a probable, but the only possible, ancestor. The savage may die out in man, but it will never die in a woman; and this truth the picture of Kneller's declares'/see illustration CONDITION REPORT: Has been cleaned, otherwise in good condition in a contemporary frame.