PORTRAIT OF LADY ELIZABETH BERTIE (1640-1683)
bears inscription Lady Elizabeth Bertie daughter of Montague Earl of Lindsey 4th Wife of Baptist 3rd Viscount Cmpden [sic]
oil on canvas
122 x 98cm; 48 x 38 1/2in
147 x 124cm; 58 x 49in (framed)

Property from a Private Collection, London

Provenance:
Charles Noel, 3rd Earl of Gainsborough (1850-1926)
The Hon. Charles and Mrs May Noel (son and daughter-in-law of the above)
Colonel Archibald Noel (son of the above)
Thence by descent to the present owner (son of the above)

Lady Elizabeth Bertie (1640-1683), was the daughter of Montagu Bertie, 2nd Earl of Lindsay and his first wife Martha Ramsay (née Cockayne), Dowager Countess of Holderness. She married Baptist Noel, 3rd Viscount Campden when she was just 15 and bore him nine children, including Martha Penelope (1666-1692) (see lots 12 & 13). Sir Peter Lely also painted her portrait. She died a year after her husband and is buried with him near the Noel family seat Exton Park in the church of St Peter and St Paul, Rutland.