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.

[1] 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.

[2] Reynolds, President of the Royal Academy, was of the country's leading portraitists.

[3] Today it is in the collection of the National Gallery in London.