ALLAN RAMSAY (EDINBURGH 1713-1784 DOVER)

Lady Frances Carteret was the youngest daughter of John Carteret, 2nd Earl Granville, by his first wife, Frances Worsley. Ramsay’s particularly fine portrait of her was likely painted to celebrate her engagement to John Hay, 4th Marquess of Tweeddale, whom she married in 1748. The couple had six children, four daughters and two sons; their eldest son died in infancy, so the Marquessate was inherited by the younger, George, who himself died aged thirteen, at which point the title devolved on his uncle.