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Description: | The inscription is a later addition and the sitter has been wrongly identified as the Countess of Cumberland. This painting is actually after a painting by Paulus van Somer, Lady Anne Clifford, in Skipton Castle. The inscription on the Skipton painting reads; 'AETATE SUE 30 1620'. The sitter was born at Skipton Castle in 1590, the daughter of George Clifford 3rd Earl of Cumberland, Queen's Champion to Elizabeth I , who fought the Spanish Armada, and the last Clifford to own Skipton Castle. Lady Anne Clifford fought equally tenaciously for her inheritance rights. She was the only remaining direct descendant of her father, but, as a woman, was denied her inheritance in favour of other male relatives. When all possible male heirs had died she eventually regained her lands and properties as an ageing woman at the outbreak of the Civil War. After the war she undertook extensive restoration of her properties. She married Richard Sackville 3rd Earl of Dorset. | Subjects: | Lady Anne) portrait (Clifford | Source: | Vads | Creator: | Artist: Somer, Paulus van, I (Flemish painter and printmaker, 1576-1621) Æ After | Identifier: | http://www.vads.ac.uk/large.php?uid=9201... | Go to resource |
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