Maria Gunning, Countess of Coventry by John Brooks (Victoria and Albert Museum - London UK)

From the Victoria & Albert Museum; traces of color removed from image and image made somewhat darker by gogm.

Artist John Brooks may have taken some license with extant portraits, including the one in the last image, to create these two portraits. The one to the left shows her wearing opening of Parliament robes.

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