Portrait of Lady Bampfylde

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Portrait of Lady Bampfylde
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Artist Joshua Reynolds
Year1777
Type Oil on canvas, portrait
Dimensions238.1 cm× 148 cm(93.7 in× 58 in)
Location Tate Britain, London

Portrait of Lady Bampfylde is a c.1777 portrait painting by the British artist Joshua Reynolds depicting Catherine, Lady Bampfylde. [1] She was the wife of Sir Charles Bampfylde, a Devon landowner and Member of Parliament. The couple married in February 1776 in Piccadilly. The full-length portrait was likely produced to commemorate the wedding. [2]

Reynolds was the President of the Royal Academy and the leading portraitist of the late eighteenth century. The painting was displayed at the Royal Academy's Summer Exhibition of 1777 at Pall Mall in London. [3] Today the painting is in the collection of the Tate Britain in Pimlico, having been bequeathed by the art collector Alfred de Rothschild in 1918. [4]

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