Sir Martin Archer Shee PRA (Irish 1769-1850) Portrait of Jane Pomeroy (b.1787), three-quarter length, wearing a white dress with blue sash and a broad-brimmed hat, seated in a landscape Oil on canvas 76.4 x 64.2cm; 30 x 25¼in Provenance: Probably John, 4th Viscount Harberton; Sir Hugo Cunliffe-Owen (1870-1947), Sunningdale Park, Berks The sitter, Jane Pomeroy, was the eldest child of Reverend John Pomeroy, 4th Viscount Harberton (1758-1833) and Esther Spencer (d.1840). The Pomeroy family left Engesdon, near Harberton, Devon for Ireland in the late 17th century and, when elevated to the Irish peerage in 1783, took the title derived from the English town.