Portrait of a Lady identified as Lady Frances Cecil, daughter of James Cecil, 3rd Earl of Salisbury, seated three-quarter-length, in an orange dress and white shirt, holding a peony in her left hand, in a wooded landscape

The sitter, the second surviving daughter of the 3rd Earl of Salisbury, by his wife Lady Margaret Manners, daughter of the 8th Earl of Rutland, married in 1692 Sir William Halford, 1st Bt. (d.1708-9). A version of this portrait is at Hatfield House (see E. Auerbach and C. Kingsley-Adams, Paintings and Sculpture at Hatfield House, 1971, p. 174, no. 142).