ENGLISH PASTELLIST

ENGLISH PASTELLIST, 18TH CENTURY PORTRAIT OF LADY ELIZABETH COMPTON half length in a white dress, a book in her hands, pastel, 50 x 40cmLady Elizabeth Compton (1760-1835) was the daughter of Charles Compton, 7th Earl of Northampton and Lady Anne Somerset. She married George Augustus Henry Cavendish, 1st Earl of Burlington, third son of William Cavendish, 4th Duke of Devonshire and Charlotte Elizabeth Boyle, Baroness Clifford on the 27th February 1782.