
Poppy Harvey-Jones
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Provenance
By family descent from the sitter's family
Lady Alexandra Louise Elizabeth Acheson (1878-1958) who married Lt.-Col. Hon. Frederick William Stanley, son of the 16th Earl of Derby, and thence by family descent to the present owner
Edward Smith-Stanley, 12th Earl of Derby (1752-1834) and his first wife, Lady Elizabeth Hamilton had two daughters, Lady Charlotte Stanley (died 1805) and Lady Elizabeth Henrietta Stanley (1778-1857). By his second wife, Eliza Farren, he had one daughter, Lady Mary Margaret Stanley (1801-1858), whose dates would best fit the present portrait.