Three-quarter-length, standing, holding a book in her left hand and resting her right arm on a Jacobean chair; she wears an embroidered black dress with pearl earrings and bracelets, with a mayoral-style chain across her bodice. Previously mis-identified as Mary, Queen of Scots with the regalia of the Order of the Thistle, it is recorded as having been largley repainted in the early eighteenth century.