[4] She is dressed in the height of contemporary fashion, including a beige translucent shawl with gold fringe trimmings, and white slippers.

[1] The painting is divided vertically into two halves; behind Anne is dense, enclosed foliage, to her right is an open, unobstructed vista of her husband's estate, with a large view of a cloudy sky.

Short, curved brushstrokes form the tree trunk, while longer strokes of blue and white paint create an illusion of shimmering, rustling fabric.

The portrait was held in the collection of the Stanhope family, passing by inheritance from its completion until 1923, when it was acquired by Henry George Alfred Marius Victor Francis Herbert, sixth earl of Carnarvon.

[5] On Leigh's death in 1959 it went into the ownership of the art dealers Thomas Agnew & Sons, who in turn sold it to Jean Paul Getty in 1959.