Portrait of Rose, daughter of Sir John Austen, 2nd Bt. of Bexley (1641-1699), half-length, in a white and brown dress with embellishments and a blue wrap

Rose Austen was one of five children born to Sir John Austen, 2nd Bt. of Bexley and his wife Rose, daughter and heir of Sir John Hale. She married Comberford Brooke (d. 1710), of Madeley Court, Shropshire and Comberford, with whom she had three children.