Jameson, Anna: Memoirs of the beauties of the Court of Charles the Second, with their portraits: after Sir Peter Lely and other eminent painters$dillustrating the diaries of Pepys, Evelyn, Clarendon and other contemporary writers (London: Henry G. Bohn, 1861)

THE COUNTESS OF SOUTHESK. 229
of Leuchars, the ancient seats of his family. He died in 1099,
and left a son, the fifth and last Earl of Southesk.
Lady Southesk had three sisters, who all married in Scotland,
and apparently passed their lives there. The eldest, Lady Eliza-
beth Hamilton, became Countess of Glencairn; Lady Mary mar-
ried Lord Calendar; and Lady Margaret became the wife of
William Blair, of Blair.
This picture is not very brilliantly or powerfully painted ; the
girlish and almost rustic simplicity of the face, and the demure
colour of the drapery, which is of a dark lavender tint, strangely
belie the character of the woman to whom it is here attributed;
but for reasons already stated, I have little doubt that it is really
the portrait of the Countess of Southesk.