Seated, nearly full length. She is dressed in blue in the costume
of a lady of the time, and with a crimson mantle edged with ermine.
Her left hand rests on a table, over which her mantle falls.
Engraved by John Verkolje.
This picture is signed on the left-hand side, and is the original
of many replicas or copies at St. James's Palace, at
Burley-on-the-Hill, Woburn, The Grove, etc. It was painted for
James II., who sent Wissing over to the Hague for the purpose. His
popularity as a portrait-painter was great, and was partly due no
doubt to his making such flattering likenesses. "When any lady
came to sit to him whose complexion was any ways pale, he would
commonly take her by the hand and dance her about the room till she
became warmer."