Mary Pakington, Lady Yate, c.1664 (oil on canvas)

Inscribed mid-left with name of the sitter: 'Dame Mary Yate Daughter to Humphrey Pakington Esq. & Wife to Sir John Tate'. A sculptured oval half-length portrait, of Lady Yate, as an elderly woman (in fact only 54!), turned slightly to left, gazing to the left, wearing widow's clothes with white chemisetts and black veil or hood. Mary Yate, daughter of Humphrey Pakington and wife of Sir John Yate, 2nd Baronet. There is another version of this painting, a signed three-quarter-length, inscribed with the sitter's age, 53, and the date 1664, previously of an unidentified woman at the Rijksmuseum, with an English provenance.