# Portrait of Francis Whyte [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [SLAUGHTER, Stephen]() - Date: 1701-1750 - Technique: Oil on canvas, 127 x 102 cm ## Commentary This painting shows a three-quarter length portrait of Francis Whyte of Redhills, County Cavan, sitting on a carved giltwood chair, leaning on his elbow on a console table draped with a blue-grey curtain, dressed in a blue coat and richly embroidered waistcoat. Francis Whyte was descended from an old Bedfordshire family whose property was at Tuddington. He was the great-grandson of Francis Whyte who had been Secretary of State to Lord Deputy Grandison temp. Elizabeth I. ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()