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Joanna Leigh, Mrs Richard Bennett Lloyd (b.1758) Inscribing a Tree

Joanna Leigh, later Lloyd, was the co-heiress, along with her four sisters, of the rich merchant John Leigh of Northcourt House, Isle of Wight. She married Richard Bennett Lloyd of Maryland in 1775. When Sir Joshua Reynolds made this work he was both an established London portrait painter and the president of the newly founded Royal Academy of Arts which sought to raise the intellectual status of painters....
1775-1776
Oil on canvas
2395.0 x 1478.0mm
103.1995

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Waddesdon Manor
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