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'Althea Cartwright'
'Althea Cartwright'
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'Althea Cartwright'

by British School

Date: c.1645-50

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Item details

  • Acquisition

    Cartwright Bequest, 1686

  • Accession number

    DPG378

  • Artist

    British School

  • Date

    c.1645-50

  • Dimensions

    76.2 x 63.8 cm

  • Inscription

    Inscribed lower left, by her right wrist: Althea

  • Materials

    Oil on canvas

Described in Cartwright's inventory as Altheas pictur her hare descheuell.... Althea Cartwright (d.1666) was the subject of Richard Lovelace's most famous lyric, To Althea, from Prison, written during his confinement in the Gatehouse in 1642 (for Lovelace, see Dobson DPG363). The sitter was presumably a relation of William II Cartwright (see Greenhill DPG393).

'Althea Cartwright'

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