Georgiana Augusta Frederica Elliott (1782–1813), Later Lady Charles Bentinck

Sir Joshua Reynolds

1784 · Oil on canvas · European Paintings

Georgiana Augusta Frederica was the daughter of Grace Dalrymple Elliott (whose portrait by Gainsborough at the Museum [20.155.1] is exhibited in Gallery 615). The record of her christening names George Augustus Frederick, Prince of Wales (later George IV) as her father, although her father may actually have been the 1st Marquess of Cholmondeley. She was reared in the Cholmondeley family and married William Charles Bentinck (1780–1826), third son of the 3rd Duke of Portland, in 1808, five years before her death at the age of thirty-one. Painted during the sitter's third year in 1784, the portrait is particularly well perserved.

Artist

Sir Joshua Reynolds

Date

1784

Medium

Oil on canvas

Department

European Paintings

Credit line

Bequest of Maria DeWitt Jesup, from the collection of her husband, Morris K. Jesup, 1914