Catherine, Lady Bampfylde
Sir Joshua Reynolds (after) 1723 - 1792
Summary
Portrait of Lady Catherine Bampfylde (1754-1832), wife of Sir Charles Warwick Bampfylde (later murdered by a former servant); mother of 1st Lord Poltimore; after Reynolds; standing whole-length to front, within landscape, head in three-quarter profile and looking to left, her left arm leaning on a block to right, wearing her hair high and curled with a plait looped over her right shoulder, with strings of pearls fastened at her breast; white lilies at foreground right. An idealised image. From a portrait commissioned to celebrate her marriage. Published by William Dickinson in London, 1779. This print is a proof before title.
Object Name
Catherine, Lady Bampfylde
Creators Name
Date Created
1779
accession number
1920.337
Collection Group
Place of creation
Europe
Support
paper
Medium
Mezzotint
Credit
Dr David Lloyd Roberts bequest, 1920
, Josiah Wedgwood, 1920.155.1200x1200.jpg)
, Duchess of Devonshire, 1918.664.1200x1200.jpg)
, Samuel Cousins.1200x1200.jpg)
