The Streatham Worthies is the collective description for the circle of literary and cultural figures around the wealthy brewer Henry Thrale and his wife Hester Thrale who assembled at his country retreat Streatham Park and were commemorated by a series of portraits by Joshua Reynolds. "the persons he most loved to contemplate… to preside over the literature that stood highest in his estimation". The members of the Worthies were: The portraits were dispersed on the sale of the contents of Streatham Park in 1816.