No. 1.
MARGARET HOWARD, COUNTESS OF
CARLISLE, AND HER NIECE, LADY
DIANA RUSSELL.
Reddish brown gown. Resting her hand on a table. Little girl in a white frock leaning against her aunt's knee.
BORN 1618. DIED 1664.
By Stone after Vandyck.
She was the third daughter of Francis, fourth Earl of Bedford, by Catherine Brydges. She married at a very early age James Hay, afterwards second Earl of Carlisle, of that family. Margaret's father-in-law was often connected with her own father in the political events of the reign of Charles the First. After the death of her husband in 1660, she married her second lord, Robert Rich, Earl of Warwick, second Earl of Holland; and lastly, Edward Montagu, Earl of Manchester, of whom Clarendon speaks in terms of high eulogium. The little girl in the picture is Lady Diana Russell, afterwards Lady Allington.
