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This is a half-length portrait with Lady Loftus wearing a blue dress. The portrait is double-framed by a painted oval at the bottom. The beautiful Anne Loftus was an orphan who was brought up together with the Earl of Stafford’s family. Anne Loftus’s grandfather, Sir Francis Rushe, Lord of the Manor of Clones, had estates in County Monaghan, Ireland. After his marriage to Anne in 1652, Sir Richard Lennard Barrett (1625–1696) assumed the Irish estates. Anne Loftus married Sir Richard Lennard Barrett. The couple had two daughters, Anne and Dorothy, and two sons, Dacre and Richard, who were sent abroad for their education for one and a half years. The Barrett-Lennard family also had estates all around England, including the Horsford Estate in Norfolk and the Aveley Estate in Essex.

Essex Record Office

Chelmsford

Title

Anne Loftus (d.1659)

Date

before 1821

Medium

oil on canvas

Measurements

H 69.9 x W 53.3 cm

Accession number

454

Work type

Painting

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Essex Record Office

Wharf Road, Chelmsford, Essex CM2 6YT England

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