Lady Worsley

Portrait of Lady Worsley is a 1779 portrait painting by the British artist Joshua Reynolds depicting Seymour, Lady Worsley. Worsley was the wife of Sir Richard Worsley, 7th Baronet, who she had married in 1775. She is shown in a riding habit customised to resemble the uniform of the South Hampshire Militia of which her husband was colonel. At the time there was a patriotic outburst following the entry of France and Spain into the American War of Independence. In the year of the painting, a Franco-Spanish fleet threatened an invasion of England known as the Armada of 1779. Reynolds spotted Lady Worsley wearing her riding costume at Coxheath military camp near Maidstone in Kent. The painting was intended to complement a 1775 portrait of Sir Richard wearing his uniform. She later became involved in a notorious scandal in 1782 when she ran off with her lover, who was sued by her husband for criminal conversation.

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