Description

Three quarter length portrait of Mary Cornwallis, wife of the Earl of Bath, in sumptuous Elizabethan dress consisting of pearl headdress, wide ruff, linen sleeves embroidered with blackwork and a plain black velvet gown hung with pearls and brooches. A pendant with classical portrait of a bearded man hangs on a ribbon from her girdle. She stands, one hand playing with her pearls, the other resting by her side, carrying a gold fan inscribed with a coat of arms.