Portrait of Francis Whyte
by SLAUGHTER, Stephen, Oil on canvas, 127 x 102 cm
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.