Anne Hyde, Duchess of York (1637-71) is depicted seated wearing a sumptuous amber coloured silk gown and holding in her right hand a tress of her hair that hangs loosely around her. This full-length design appears to have been painted later than the three-quarter length version which is also in the Royal Collection (RCIN 405641). Anne Hyde regularly patronised Lely and there were ten copies of his portraits of her in his studio at the time of his death.