Sir Thomas Lawrence, P.R.A. (1769-1830)

THE PROPERTY OF A GENTLEMAN

Details

Sir Thomas Lawrence, P.R.A. (1769-1830)

Portrait of Miss Juliana Copley, seated half-length, wearing a white dress with black sash

29¼ x 24½in. (74.5 x 62cm.)

Provenance

Sir W.J. Watson, Bt.; Christie's, 25 June 1904, lot 108 (2400 gns. to Davis.)
Sir Berkeley Sheffield Bt.; Christie's, 16 July 1943, lot 75 (4000 gns. to Tooth)
Mrs. J.V. Rank
Jack Cotton, thence by descent

Literature

Sir Walter Armstrong, Lawrence, 1913, p. 123
Apollo, January 1945, illus. p. 36
Kenneth Garlick, Sir Thomas Lawrence, 1954, p. 33
Kenneth Garlick, A Catalogue of the Paintings, Drawings and Pastels of Sir Thomas Lawrence, Walpole Society, 1964, vol. XXXIX, p. 60
Kenneth Garlick, Sir Thomas Lawrence, 1989, p. 172

Exhibited

Royal Academy, 1961, no. 31

Lot Essay

The sitter was the daughter of Sir Joseph Copley 1st Bt. of Sprotborough, Yorkshire and Mary Buller. She married Sir Charles Watson 1st Bt., (1751-1844) who had been created a baronet at the age of nine. The painting, which dates from the late 1780s, was possibly commissioned on the occasion of the sitter's marriage in 1787.

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