Catherine, Lady Bampfylde

Sir Joshua Reynolds (after), 1723 - 1792



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 the portrait commissioned to celebrate her marriage. Published by William Dickinson in London, 1779.


Object Name

Catherine, Lady Bampfylde

Date Created

1779

accession number

1920.422

Place of creation

Europe

Support

paper

Medium

Mezzotint

Credit

Dr David Lloyd Roberts bequest, 1920


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