Sir Thomas Lawrence

British, 1769 - 1830

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English portrait painter (1769–1830)

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Sir Thomas Lawrence, Francis Charles Seymour-Conway, 3rd Marquess of Hertford, c. 1822/1823, oil on canvas, Gift of G. Grant Mason, Jr., 1968.6.2

Francis Charles Seymour-Conway, 3rd Marquess of Hertford

Sir Thomas Lawrence · c. 1822/1823 · oil on canvas ·  Accession ID  1968.6.2

Both dressed in white, a little boy leans onto the lap of a woman sitting in front of a smooth, sunlit boulder with a landscape to the right in this vertical portrait painting. Both people have pale skin with rosy cheeks. To our left, the woman sits with her body facing our right. Her round face also tips to our right, and she looks at us with gray eyes. She has an upturned nose and her full, pink lips are closed in a slight smile. Her long legs are crossed at the ankles, and dark gray slippers peek out from under the long hem. She wears a diaphanous, eggshell-white gown gathered under her bust. The short sleeves of the dress are puffy over sheer sleeves that extend to her wrists. A sheer veil is tied over her brown hair with a gray ribbon falls over her shoulders. She wears coral-red beaded necklace and drop earrings. Her hands rest in her lap and intertwine with the little boy’s hands. He stands behind her and leans onto her knees with both elbows. His round face is framed by a cap of honey-brown hair, and he looks at us with big, lapis-blue eyes. The boy has a small nose and bow-shaped lips. He wears a flax-yellow and mist-gray short sleeved garment with a bow in the back. Light falls on the pair from our left, and throws some of the foliage surrounding them into shadow. Burnt orange, gold, and white leaves and flowers surround the boulder behind the woman, and a view into a moss-green forest interior extends into the distance to our right.
Sir Thomas Lawrence, Lady Mary Templetown and Her Eldest Son, 1802, oil on canvas, Andrew W. Mellon Collection, 1937.1.96

Lady Mary Templetown and Her Eldest Son

Sir Thomas Lawrence · 1802 · oil on canvas ·  Accession ID  1937.1.96

Sir Thomas Lawrence, Mrs. Robert Blencowe, c. 1792, oil on canvas, Widener Collection, 1942.9.37

Mrs. Robert Blencowe

Sir Thomas Lawrence · c. 1792 · oil on canvas ·  Accession ID  1942.9.37

Sir Thomas Lawrence, Seated Boy, black and red chalk and graphite on cardboard, Gift of the Priscilla Mason Trust, 2013.22.1

Seated Boy

Sir Thomas Lawrence · · black and red chalk and graphite on cardboard ·  Accession ID  2013.22.1

Bibliography

1831

  • Williams, D. E. Life and Correspondence of Sir Thomas Lawrence, Kt.. 2 vols. London, 1831.

1921

  • Ref Number: 2445
    Lugt, Frits. Les marques de collections de dessins & d'estampes; marques estampillees et ecrites de collections. Amsterdam: Vereenigde drukkerijen, 1921.

1954

  • Garlick, Kenneth. Sir Thomas Lawrence. London, 1954.

1969

  • Millar, Sir Oliver. The Later Georgian Pictures in the Collection of Her Majesty the Queen. 2 vols. London, 1969: 1:59-79.

1979

  • Levey, Sir Michael. Sir Thomas Lawrence 1769-1830. Exh. cat. National Portrait Gallery, London, 1979.

1989

  • Garlick, Kenneth. Sir Thomas Lawrence: A Complete Catalogue of the Oil Paintings. Oxford, 1989.

1992

  • Hayes, John. British Paintings of the Sixteenth through Nineteenth Centuries. The Collections of the National Gallery of Art Systematic Catalogue. Washington, D.C., 1992: 152-153.