Margaret Bingham, Countess of Lucan (1740 – 27 February 1814)[1] was an English painter, copyist and poet, whose art was much admired by Horace Walpole.

Her pseudonymous Verses on the Present State of Ireland made a strong protest against Britain's treatment of the country.

[1] She died in 1814 at St James's Place in London and was survived by five children:[1][2] As an artist, Bingham often copied the work of others, as well as painting portrait miniatures.

Bingham's foremost work was to supply miniatures and illuminations for a five-volume edition of Shakespeare's historical plays, for the library at Althorp, Northamptonshire.

In his Anecdotes he attributes to her "a genius that almost depreciates those masters [from whom she copied], when we consider that they spent their lives in attaining perfection.