Sarah Reynolds

Sarah Reynolds, shown here with her hair fashionably curled around her face and wearing an empire-line dress with a lilac wrap round her arms, was the daughter of William Reynolds and his wife Mary (née Lucas). A portrait of her sister, Harriet, painted in the same year, also by Engleheart, resides in the collection of the Victoria & Albert Museum.

The portrait is signed on the reverse (now pasted to the backing paper) ‘J D Engleheart / 1810 Pinxt / 88 Newman St’ with biographical details added in a later hand. The portrait is set in what appears to be the original papier-mâché frame with an elongated leaf hanger.

John Cox Dillman Engleheart was the nephew and pupil of George Engleheart. He exhibited at the Royal Academy between 1801 and 1828.