A bequest of Henry Francis du Pont, the painting is held in the permanent collection of the Winterthur Museum, Garden and Library.

[1] Born Rebecca Pritchard, the mother had married wealthy shipwright Edward Shrewsbury of Charleston and produced one child, Eliza.

The portrait bears a striking resemblance to Earl's Elizabeth Fales Paine and Her Aunt, painted at about the same time.

[2] Curator Morgan Lan described this portrait as "one of Earl’s most luminous and eye-catching works: a sumptuous display of rich fabric, genteel refinement, and graceful disposition."

Earl follows English painting conventions, featuring classical and theatrical elements, indeterminate background landscape, and tempestuous sky, but his richly textured materials and saturated colors are reminscient of Copley and other American artists.