Attributed to Jacob Huysmans

The Beechwood Museum, Inc., Newport, Rhode Island, no. 27 (according to an inscription on the stretcher).

The canvas is relined and the paint surface is secure. The picture seems very well preserved with only small retouchings and restorations throughout. There are some very minor strengthenings in the lady's face and hair, and around her pearls and some retouching in the fingers of her right hand. The is an old restored damage in the bottom right corner of her gold dress, square in shape and measuring 3 x 3 inches.
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The coronation of James II and his Queen, Mary of Modena, took place on 23 April 1685 at Westminster Abbey, and the robes worn by members of the peerage were specially designed for the occasion. The coronet on the table behind the sitter in this painting is that of a Countess in the peerage of England, twenty nine of whom attended James II's coronation ceremony.