Portrait of a Gentleman, possibly William Eden, 1st Lord Auckland, M.P. (1744-1814), a head study, unfinished

Details

Sir Thomas Lawrence, P.R.A. (1769-1830)
Portrait of a Gentleman, possibly William Eden, 1st Lord Auckland, M.P. (1744-1814), a head study, unfinished
oil on canvas
30 x 25in. (76.2 x 63.5cm.)

Provenance

Possibly Sir Edmund Davies.

Literature

K. Garlick, A Catalogue of the Paintings, Drawings and Pastels of Sir Thomas Lawrence, London, Walpole Society, 39, 1964, p. 208., no. 3.
K. Garlick, Sir Thomas Lawrence, Oxford, 1989, no. 863.

Lot Essay

Garlick (op. cit.) dates this picture to the early 1790s. He also notes that the portrait bears 'a certain but not convincing' likeness to Lawrence's Portrait of William Eden, 1st Baron Auckland (Garlick, op. cit., no. 53), which was commissioned for Christ Church, Oxford, and for which a sitting is recorded in 1792.

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