The sitter is presumably either the first or second wife of Peter Langford Brooke (see note to previous lot). He married firstly in 1818 Elizabeth Sophia, eldest daughter of Vice-Admiral Sir Charles Rowley, K.C.B,: they had no children. He married secondly in 1836 Julia Seymour Buccleugh, daughter of Colonel John Campbell of Shawfield, Argyllshire; they had no children.

Other protraits by the artist, possibly commissioned at the same time by patrons who lived nearby, are of Lady Sykes at Tatton Park, and a full length of George Harry, 7th Earl of Stamford and his sister Margaret as children, at Dunham Massey.