She was the wife of the John AlstonII, who she married in 1753 and who subsequently inherited his elder brother's
baronetcy. At the time Gainsborough was an established portraitist of
High Society based at the
spa town of
Bath. He depicts her at full-length in the fashionable costume of the mid
Georgian era. Her stance appears to be inspired by a seventeenth century depiction of
Lady Anne Clifford by
Anthony van Dyck. Gainsborough's painting appeared at the
British Institution exhibition in
London in 1862. Today is in the collection of the Louvre, in Paris, having been offered by the
Rothschild family, in 1947. ==References==