Lady Louisa Caroline Isabella Hervey, Lady Smyth (1715-1770)

Charles Jervas (Dublin 1675 – London 1739). Oil painting on canvas, Lady Louisa Caroline Isabella Hervey, Lady Smyth (1715-1770) by Charles Jervas (Dublin 1675 – London 1739), circa 1733. A three-quarter-length portrait of a young woman, standing in a landscape, facing, gazing at the spectator, wearing a white satin dress with elbow-length sleeves, a blue ribbon tied at the centre of her bodice, a filigree gilt and metal belt around waist, her right hand holds the rim of her straw hat on her head, a basket of garden flowers over her left wrist; long dark grey hair; landscape background, including a tree bending in the wind, with two collapses branches low down on it. She was the seventh daughter of John Hervey, 1st Earl of Bristol (1665-1751), and the fifth by his second wife, Elizabeth Felton (1676-1741). On 23 September 1731, she married, at Ickworth, Sir Robert Smyth, 2nd Bt. (c.1709-1783) of Isfield, Sussex and had one son and one daughter. Her son, Captain Hervey Smyth, 3rd Bt (1734-1811) was a page of honour to George II, and, as A.D.C. to General Wolfe, was present at the latter’s death in 1759 at Quebec. He is depicted in Benjamin West’s Death of General Wolfe (version at Ickworth: ICK.P.87). The daughter, Anne Mirabella [after her grandmother, the daughter of Sir Robert Legard] Henrietta, born in 1738, married in 1761 William Beale Brand, of Polstead Hall, Suffolk. Ickworth, Suffolk (Accredited Museum)