Bamborough Castle, Northumberland

Charlotte Reinagle (1782 - 1824)

RA Collection: Art

A pencil drawing of Bamborough or Bambrugh Castle in Northumberland. The castle was mentioned by Sir Walter Scott in his poem 'Marmion - A Tale of Flodden Field' (Edinburgh 1808) and also features in the 13th-century verse 'The Laidley Worm' by Duncan Frasier of Cheviot.

Charlotte Reinagle was one of Philip Reinagle's daughters. She exhibited paintings, mainly landscapes, at the Royal Academy and the British Institution until 1821. She married John White. Her sister, Oriana Georgiana Reinagle, was a friend of J.H. Smith, a porcelain painter and collector, to whom she left him a group of drawings by herself and other members of her family when she died in 1875.