Phyllis Neilson-Terry (1892–1977) is depicted three-quarter length, leaning on a parapet wall surrounded by red rhododendrons. She wears a decorative hat, an aqua-blue dress and a coral shawl, and holds her blue turquoise beads, on their long gold chain. A large tree is to the rear, right. Charles Buchel, the artist, worked within theatrical circles, in particular for Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree with whom her mother, Julia Neilson-Terry, was professionally associated. A student at the Royal Academy of Music, Phyllis Neilson-Terry made her earliest stage appearances as a child with her actor brother Dennis, in a cart in the first scene of ‘The Scarlet Pimpernel’, brought to the stage by her mother and her father Fred Terry. As well as her stage work and performances as a singer, her films included ‘RX for Murder’, when she co-starred with Marius Goring, and ‘Look Back in Anger’, both in 1958.