Cecilia Morley, Mrs Francis Osbaldeston

attributed to Michael Dahl (Stockholm 1656/9 – London 1743). Oil painting on canvas, Cecilia/Cicely Morley, Mrs Francis Osbaldeston attributed to Michael Dahl (1656-1743), inscribed: Cecilia daug. of Sir John Morley / wife of Francis Osbaldiston Esqr / 1700. A portrait of a middle-aged woman, three-quarter length, seated, turned slightly towards the left, gazing at spectator, with her right arm on a plinth and her left hand in her lap. She has brown hair falling in a ringlet on her left shoulder. The sitter wears an orange-gold décolleté dress with a blue mantle draped on her left shoulder and spread on the seat beside her on the right. Dark background, with pink fringed drape discerned on the left. Daughter of Sir John Morley of Halfnaked, alias Halnaker, Sussex, sister of Sir William Morley, of the same, and the wife of Francis [wrongly called Thomas] Osbaldeston, of Aldersbrook, Essex. Killerton, Devon (Accredited Museum)