
In this portrait, Sir Joshua Reynolds-the first president of the Royal Academy and a champion of the importance of classical artistic models-conferred upon her a flattering honorary citizenship in the ancient world. George was persuaded to marry a German princess instead of her, and a year after the royal marriage, Lady Sarah wed Sir Charles Bunbury in a match that lasted only a short while.



Lady Sarah Bunbury was famous as the society beauty who attracted the attention of the future King George III when she was only fifteen.
