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

The Property of the Trustees of the late Sir R.V. Sutton Bt.

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

Portrait of Francis Chaplin, M.P., half-length, in a dark coat with yellow waistcoat and a white cravat, holding his gloves

36¼ x 28in. (92.1 x 71.1cm.)

Provenance

by descent from the sitter

Literature

Lord R. Sutherland Gower, Romney and Lawrence, London 1882, p. 117
Sir W. Armstrong, Lawrence, London 1913, p. 121
K. Garlick, Sir Thomas Lawrence, London 1954, p. 31
K. Garlick, A Catalogue of the Paintings, Drawings and Pastels of Sir Thomas Lawrence, Walpole Society, 1964, XXXIX, p. 297, Appendix IV, no. 242
K. Garlick, Sir Thomas Lawrence, Oxford, 1989, no. 181

Exhibited

London, British Institution, 1830, no 80

Lot Essay

While the present picture is recorded as having been finished in 1825, it has been suggested that elements of the picture may have been completed by a studio hand.

The sitter was the fourth son of Charles Chaplin of Tathwell and his wife Elizabeth Thoroton. He married his cousin Elizabeth Chaplin of Blankney in 1781 and died in 1838.

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