Portrait of Elizabeth Harcourt Vernon, wife of George, 2nd Earl of Harcourt, small half-length with feathers in her hair

Elizabeth, daughter of George Venables-Vernon, 1st Baron Vernon, was brought up at Sudbury Hall, Derbyshire, and married her cousin George Harcourt, in 1765. They lived at Nuneham Courtenay, Oxfordshire, where they employed Capability Brown to redesign the gardens, and Paul Sandby to advise on the interior of the house. Unusually, Elizabeth is depicted kneeling in an idyllic parkland landscape.
We are grateful to Neil Jeffares for his help in preparing this catalogue entry, and for including this drawing in the next update of his Dictionary of pastellists.