Elizabeth Drummond, Lady Hervey (d.1818) and her Daughter Elizabeth Catherine Caroline Hervey later, The Hon....

possibly Italian (Florentine) School. Oil painting on canvas, Elizabeth Drummond, Lady Hervey (d.1818) and her daughter Elizabeth Catherine Caroline Hervey later, The Hon. Mrs Charles Rose Ellis (1780-1803), possibly by Italian (Florentine) School. circa 1785-1790. The mother, three-quarter-length portrait, seated on a stone bench, facing, wearing a dress consisting of white bodice, brown skirt and long over-mantle of bluish-green; light brown curly hair and a white bandeau; holding her daughter on her lap. The child, full-length portrait, turned to the left, gazing at the spectator, wears a long white dress, with red slippers edged with black; she has long fair hair. A small black dog rests his head upon her knees. A plinth, left, and laurels, right, in an Italian classical garden setting. Elizabeth Drummond (d.1818) was the elder daughter of Colin Drummond of Megginch, Perthshire, Commissary-General and Paymaster to the British Forces in Canada. She married John Augustus, Captain Lord Hervey (1757-1796), second but eldest surviving, son of Frederick Hervey, 4th Earl of Bristol and Bishop of Derry (1730-1803), in 1779 in Quebec. She died at Richmond in 1818. Their only child, Elizabeth Catherine Caroline (1780-1803), the little girl portrayed here, married Charles Rose Ellis (cr. 1st Lord Seaford in 1826), in 1798, at Ickworth. They had one son, Charles Augustus Hervey (1799-1868), who succeeded his maternal great-grandfather, the Earl-Bishop, as 6th Lord Howard de Walden in 1803, and his father as 2nd Lord Seaford in 1845. Ickworth, Suffolk (Accredited Museum)