Portrait of a lady, traditionally identified as Mrs. Nelthorpe, three-quarter-length, in a white dress and pink shawl, beside a stone plinth

This picture was recorded by Duleep Singh (op.cit) at Barwick House, in Norfolk, which was then the property of Mrs Henry George Seymour, on 8 January 1908, when it was identified as a portrait of Mrs Nelthorpe of Lynford or perhaps of Lady Turner. Barwick House had come into the possession of the Seymour family through the marriage of Henry George Seymour (1818-1869) to Sophia Margaret, elder daughter of Derick Hoste, of Barwick House, in 1861, and the Hoste family were linked to the Nelthorpes, of Lynford Hall, by marriage. Ward and Roberts do not, however, record portraits for sitters of this name.

We are grateful to Alex Kidson who has suggested that on stylistic grounds the portrait is datable to circa 1776-1780 after Romney had returned from Italy.