Oil on canvas, 124.5cm by 99cm.
Letitia Townshend (1726-1756) was a great heiress, the daughter of Horatio Townshend of Norfolk (c1683-1751) and the first wife of Brownlow, 9th Earl of Exeter (1725-1793), to whom she was married in 1748.
The 1763 Burghley Inventory records: ‘the Brown dining room …Brownlow, ye 9th Earl of Exeter by Hudson, Letitia his wife daughter to Horatio Townshend esqre.’
