This portrait of Lady Tennant is from an album entitled 'England's Beautiful Women'. The album contains portraits by many notable studio photographers, including Keturah Collings. Each portrait is accompanied by a description of the sitter. Lady Tennant is described as an "extremely cultured woman" having written a number of books of verse and prose.

Lady Tennant was depicted in the painting 'The Wyndham Sisters' by John Singer Sargent (1899). She and her family belonged to the social group The Souls.