Standing before a classical column, Lady Diana gazes out pensively as she lightly strokes her pearl necklace. With a cloak over her shoulders, she wears a fashionable turban liberally trimmed with ropes of pearls to match her pearl drop earrings.*Born in 1768, Arabella Diana was the daughter of Sir Charles Cope 2nd Baronet and Catherine Annabella Bishopp. Her father died when she was just thirteen; his vast estates were inherited by Diana and her sister making them both wealthy young heiresses. Her mother subsequently married Charles Jenkinson 1st Earl of Liverpool. Their descendants have hitherto been the caretakers of this portrait.*Aged 22, Arabella Diana married 48-year-old John Frederick Sackville, 3rd Duke of Dorset. The family home was Knole House in Sevenoaks: now managed by the National Trust, John Frederick’s important art collection is still on display there. Prior to their marriage, John had had a long-running affair with a dancer whose full-length plaster l...