These paintings (this and the next), together with two slightly later portraits of a lady and a gentleman, were presented by Mrs Mostyn, whose husband was a descendant of the Browne Mostyn family of Oxfordshire.
The Browne Mostyns lived at Kiddington Hall, north of Woodstock and the main Browne line lived at Cowdray Park, Sussex.
After the Reformation they adhered to the Catholic faith and one of the family, Sir
Anthony Browne, Viscount Montagu, was implicated in the Gunpowder Plot.
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