Pat O' Conner (fl.1679)

possibly Thomas ffrancis (fl.Montgomery 1635-1679-98). Oil painting on paper and card varnished and pinned to a wooden panel, Pat O'Conner (fl.1679), possibly by Thomas ffrancis (fl. 1635 - 1679), 1679, inscribed bottom right: Pat O’Conner. A full-length figure, turned slightly to the right, smiling/laughing and gazing at spectator, wearing a crumpled hat, coat, breeches, the buttons of which are undone at the knee, stockings and short boots, holding bagpipes in his hand an under his right arm, his fingers on the pipe ready to play. Pat O’Conner, itinerant Irish musicians, perhaps identifiable with the Bagpipe man and fidler ‘ who came to the castle in 1679 in the entourage of Mrs Katherine Mainwaring, aunt of Sir Thomas Myddelton, 2nd Bt (1651-1684). Chirk Castle, Wrexham (Accredited Museum)