Portrait of Banastre Tarleton

{{Short description|Painting by Joshua Reynolds}}

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| title = Portrait of Banastre Tarleton

| artist = Joshua Reynolds

| year = 1782

| medium = Oil on canvas

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| width_metric = 145

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| museum = National Gallery

| city = London

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Portrait of Banastre Tarleton is a 1782 portrait painting by the English artist Sir Joshua Reynolds. It depicts the British army officer Banastre Tarleton against a background scene of battle, referring to his recent service in the American War of Independence.Myrone p.219-20 Tarleton is shown in the uniform of the British Legion, a unit of American Loyalist cavalry which he had served with before surrendering at the Siege of Yorktown in 1781.Ferling p.422 Reynolds, President of the Royal Academy, was of the country's leading portraitists.

It was exhibited at the Royal Academy's Summer Exhibition in 1782.Myrone p.219

Today it is in the collection of the National Gallery in London.{{Cite web |title=Sir Joshua Reynolds {{!}} Colonel Tarleton {{!}} NG5985 {{!}} National Gallery, London |url=https://www.nationalgallery.org.uk/paintings/sir-joshua-reynolds-colonel-tarleton |access-date=2024-11-26 |website=www.nationalgallery.org.uk}}