a tenuous connection, but lovely portrait

Found on Ancestry: Katherine Saltonstall, 1736–1821, CT., the grand-niece of the wife of my 1st cousin 10x removed.

Perhaps a tenuous relationship at best, but I do like this portrait of her, submitted by another user, said to be by Joseph-Blackburn, from 1762. She would have been about 26 at the time of the sitting. She was married in 1758.

Some trees have her as the mother of eight children: David, Esther, Jeremiah, Jerusha, Roswell, Anna, Obediah, and Simeon.

Joseph Blackburn was a well-known painter of the time, and even taught John Singleton Copley, but, according to Wikipedia, became jealous of his pupil's success. 

Her father Gurdon Saltonstall was the governor of CT, and his father Nathaniel Saltonstall was a judge at the Salem Witch trials, so my family had people on both sides of the bench ...