Joshua ReynoldsPortrait of Lady Ingestre

Signed in ink across the bottom third "Joshua Reynolds" and inscribed lower right Lady Ingestre, 1789. This was painted in the year that Reynolds went blind and he died in 1792. She is Charlotte

Chetwynd-Talbot,

born 1754 (hence she would have been aged 35 in this picture), later Countess Talbot (married to John Chetwynd‑Talbot, 1st Earl

Talbot), but she also held the courtesy title Lady Ingestre. The

title Lady Ingestre was associated with the family seat Ingestre Hall in

Staffordshire. Reynolds had earlier painted a full length portrait in oils of Lady Ingestre (in the Beit collection from Russborough, Ireland and was bequeathed to the Tate Gallery in London), who came from the north of England and lived in Ingestre Hall. It

was in the Beit family collection and was bequeathed by Sir Otto Beit

in 1941 to Tate Britain, where it is today (accession Tate N05640).