Mrs Hoare
(1786-1887)
1860

[This portrait does not appear in any of the Silvy daybooks in the archives of the National Portrait Gallery. Stylistically, it ought to appear in Volume 1 but it is not there. However, the sitter visited the studio again on 25 April 1861 and a portrait from that sitting appears in a later daybook (Volume 3, page 146, sitting 3268), where the lady is identified as 'Mrs Hoare.']

This is probably Anne Penelope Hoare née Ainslie, the daughter of Lieutenant-General George Ainslie and the wife of Henry Charles Hoare. 

Mrs Anne Penelope Hoare died on 31 March 1887 at 9 St James’s Square, London. She was 100 years old.

'Mrs Ann [sic] Penelope Hoare, mother of Sir Henry Ainslie Hoare, Bart., who was the Conservative Candidate for this division at the general election of 1885, has died at her residence in St James's Square, in her 101st year. The deceased lady was the youngest daughter of the late General Geo. Ainslie, colonel of the 13th Foot, and Lieutenant Governor of the Scilly Isles, who died in 1804. She was born in 1786, and married first, on April 30, 1817, Captain John Prince, of the Coldstream Guards, by whom she had an only child, Mary Ann Caroline, who was born on March 16, 1818 [two months after the death of her father]. Mrs Prince married, secondly, on October 6, 1821, Mr Henry Charles Hoare, the banker, of 37, Fleet Street, and Wavenden House, Bucks, second son of Sir Henry Hoare, Bart., and by this marriage had an only son and four daughters. Her son, Sir Henry Ainslie Hoare (born April 14, 1824), succeeded to the baronetcy on the death of his uncle in 1857. One of the deceased lady's surviving daughters, Miss Georgiana Sophia Hoare, is, according to "Debrett," Sister Superior of St Alban's Mission, London' (Shepton Mallet Journal, 8 April 1887).