Oil on canvas (H. 105.4 cm, W. 82 cm); inscribed on frame: Brownlow Cecil Ld. Burghley. Aet 12. 1738; signed and dated on the edge of the marble-topped table in the right foreground: I[saac] Whood / 1737
Brownlow Cecil (1725-93) was a pupil at Winchester 1732-42. He succeeded his father as 9th Earl of Exeter in 1754. This is one of a [...]