Antique Mezzotint Portrait of Countess of Oxford circa 1740 Gilt Frame.

Antique Mezzotint Portrait of Countess of Oxford circa 1740 Gilt Frame. Jane Elizabeth Harley, Countess of Oxford and Countess Mortimer was an English noblewoman, known as a patron of the Reform movement and a lover of Lord Byron Born: 1774 And Died: 1824. The daughter of James Scott, vicar of Itchin; in 1794 she married Edward Harley, fifth Earl of Oxford. Her children by various fathers were dubbed “The Harleian Miscellany.