Portrait of Helen Hope, Countess of Haddington, three-quarter-length, seated, in a dark yellow dress, with a red lined blue wrap, holding a sprig of blossom in a right hand, in a wooded landscape

The sitter was the daughter of John Hope of Hopetoun (d. 1682) and his wife, Margaret (d. 1711), eldest daughter of the John, 4th Earl of Haddington and Christian, second daughter of the 15th Earl of Crawford and Lindsay. In 1696 she married her cousin, Thomas, 6th Earl of Haddington (d. 1735) and by him had issue. A portrait of the sitter's mother, Margaret, inscribed 'S.J. Medina P./1694', was sold by Sotheby's; Tyninghame House sale, East Lothian, Scotland, 28-29 September 1987, as lot 545.