A Lady, seated in a red upholstered chair, wearing plum coloured dress with puffed white gauze sleeves, seed pearl brooch in the form of a bird at her corsage, pearl necklace, pendent pearl earrings and comb in her upswept hair, red curtain beyond.
Mrs Mary Gaskell (d.1845), wearing white dress edged with lace, sapphire brooch at her corsage, her raven hair braided, curled and upswept with a tortoiseshell comb