Elizabeth Countess of Berkeley
Engraver James McArdell Irish
After Sir Joshua Reynolds British
Sitter Elizabeth (née Drax), Countess of Berkeley British
Not on view
This print is based on a Reynolds portrait believed to have been painted in 1756. Leaning on a book, the subject looks to the left. She wears a fur-trimmed mantle, and a dress with wide lace cuffs and ribbon bows on the bodice. Elizabeth Drax married Augustus Berkeley, 4th Earl of Berkeley in 1744 and was, from 1745 to 1777, Lady of the Bedchamber to the Princess of Wales (Dowager Princess of Wales from 1751). Reynolds's portrait was made after the death of the sitter's first husband's death in 1755 and before her 1757 marriage to Robert Nugent, 1st Earl Nugent.
