Mrs Crewe as the Fate Clotho, facing right in white dress with pink sash, pink cloak draped over her shoulders, white scarf tied under her chin in her dark curling hair, holding a distaff

Frances Anne Crewe, Lady Crewe (d. 1818) daughter of Fulk Greville, envoy extraordinary to the Elector of Bavaria was considered one of the most beautiful women of her time. She married John, afterwards 1st Baron Crewe (d. 1829) in 1766. Their houses, Crewe Hall, Cheshire and in Hampstead were the venue of many parties attended by Charles James Fox and Richard Brinsley Sheridan.
Ozias Humphry painted several miniatures of Baron and Lady Crewe. Two payments are recorded for 21 June 1786 'Mr Crewe for a small portrait of Mrs Crewe leaning on her hand 8.12.0' and 'At the same time in the Character of a Saint 31.10.0' (G. C. Williamson, Life and Works of Ozias Humphry, R. A., London, 1918, p. 295.). A miniature of Mrs Crewe by Ozias Humphry was sold in these rooms 8 March 1995, lot 28.