Possibly Alice Bankes, Lady Borlase (1621-1683)

possibly Gilbert Soest (Soest c.1605 – London 1681). Oil painting on canvas, Possibly Alice Bankes, Lady Borlase (1621-1683), possibly Gerard Soest (Soest c.1600 – London 1681), inscribed upper left, Lady Borlace./by Sir P.Lely. A three-quarter-length portrait of a woman, seated, turned to the right, gazing at the spectator, her left hand holding a scallop shell to a fountain on the right and wearing a gold-coloured dress and blue cloak, with long golden hair 'en taureau'. She also wears a single strand pearl necklet and drop pearl earrings, landscape background with trees, and sky. Eldest daughter of Sir John Bankes she married Sir John Borlase in 1637 Shows her as an older woman than in Van Dyck's portrait at Kingston Lacy. Another version is in the National Gallery of Art, Washington. This is regarded by R. Strong as an autograph portrait. Sudbury Hall, Derbyshire