Elizabeth Farren (born about 1759, died 1829), Later Countess of Derby

Thomas Lawrence · 1790 · Oil on canvas

Portrait of Elizabeth Farren, Later Countess of Derby is an oil on canvas painting by the English artist Thomas Lawrence. Produced probably in 1790, it is now in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, in New York, to which it was donated by Edward S. Harkness in 1940. As its title states, its subject the actress Elizabeth Farren married Edward Smith-Stanley, 12th Earl of Derby in 1797, seven years after the painting.

Image courtesy of The Metropolitan Museum of Art.

Available as a made-to-order museum-quality canvas print: stretched or framed.