A rare, three quarter length, seated portrait of the beautiful Elizabeth Stephenson (d. 1821), wife of John Savile 2nd Earl of Mexborough. She is depicted seated against the base of a column, with a park in the background. She wears a wide brimmed hat, trimmed with feathers, over elaborately curled hair, with a lace trimmed gauze fichu over a dark dress. Daughter of John Stephenson of East Burnham, Buckinghamshire, she married the Earl of Mexborough in 1782, dying suddenly at her house in Piccadilly in June 1821.
Elizabeth Countess of Mexborough
£250.00
William Ward after John Hoppner Elizabeth Countess of Mexborough London, J. R. Smith Dec. 1784 Mezzotint 410x355mm Neat marginal repairs
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