Elizabeth Beverley Randolph (Mrs. William Randolph II)

The subject is identified by family tradition. The original portrait is known only from a 1750s copy painted by John Wollaston. The original likely hung at her home at Turkey Island. Elizabeth Beverley was the daughter of Peter Beverley and Elizabeth Peyton Beverley. She married William Randolph II of Turkey Island. There is a possibility that this portrait represents Mary Isham Randolph (Mrs. William Randolph I).

See: David Meschutt, “John Wollaston’s Portraits of the Randolph Family Owned by the Virginia Historical Society,” The Virginia Magazine of History and Biography 16, 4 (October 1984): 449-473; Carolyn J. Weekley, Painters and Paintings in the Early American South (2013), 69.