SIR THOMAS LAWRENCE, P.R.A. (BRISTOL 1769-1830 LONDON)
SIR THOMAS LAWRENCE, P.R.A. (BRISTOL 1769-1830 LONDON)
SIR THOMAS LAWRENCE, P.R.A. (BRISTOL 1769-1830 LONDON)
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SIR THOMAS LAWRENCE, P.R.A. (BRISTOL 1769-1830 LONDON)
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SIR THOMAS LAWRENCE, P.R.A. (BRISTOL 1769-1830 LONDON)

Portrait sketch of two young boys embracing, possibly George, 3rd Marquess Townshend (1778-1855) and his younger brother Charles (1785-1853)

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SIR THOMAS LAWRENCE, P.R.A. (BRISTOL 1769-1830 LONDON)
Portrait sketch of two young boys embracing, possibly George, 3rd Marquess Townshend (1778-1855) and his younger brother Charles (1785-1853)
black, white and red chalk on a prepared canvas
30 x 25 in. (76.2 x 63.5 cm.)
Provenance
Probably the Artist's studio sale; Christie's, London, 18 June 1831, lot 77 (195 gns to Lord Charles Townshend).
Lord Charles Townshend.
Mrs. M. C. M. Nuttall; Sotheby's, London, 6 February 1952, lot 143, as 'English School' (£12, to Leger)
with Leger Galleries, London.
with Colnaghi's, London.
Exhibited
London, Leger Galleries, October - November 1952, no. 14.

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Lot Essay

Lawrence made these large scale drawings on canvas as preparatory drawings for his finished portraits, for example William Lock the Younger, Yale Center for British Art, or as finished works in their own right, see Christie's, London, 4 June 2008, lot 23, Double Portrait of Richard Rowland Bloxham and Andrew Bloxham, on the eve of their departure for the Sandwich Islands, 1823. Sometimes they were not taken further as 'Lawrence sometimes, nay often, laid aside the first drawing and painted on a copy' from his fear of losing the invaluable benefit of first impressions.' (A. Cunningham, The Lives of the most eminent British Painters, Sculptors and Architects, vol. 6. 1833, p. 195).

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