Francisca Posthuma Legh, Lady Brooke (b.1639/40)

British (English) School. Oil painting on canvas, Francisca Posthuma Legh, Lady Brooke (b.1639/40), British (English) School, 1670. A painted oval half-length portrait of a middle-aged woman, head facing, inclined slightly to right, with curled brown hair, tresses falling on her right shoulder, wearing a black gown lined with scarlet to the neck, short (slashed?) sleeves, a white chemise with a ruffled collar beneath. Two brooches, one on her left shoulder with two ropes of pearls, another on the turn-back of her sleeve, again on her left. Red drapery to the lower left corner. Sister of Richard Legh, wife of Sir Richard Brooke. Lyme Park, Cheshire (Accredited Museum)