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Studio of Sir Thomas Lawrence P.R.A.
Description
- Sir Thomas Lawrence P.R.A.
- Portrait of Mrs. Locke, née Jennings
- standing three quarter length, wearing a pink dress with a white sash wrapped around her arms
- oil on canvas
Provenance
Lord Wallscourt;
Anonymous sale, London, Christie's, May 11, 1911, no. 61 to
Lowenstein;
M. Eugène Fischof, Paris;
With Sedelmeyer Gallery, 1913;
With Duveen, from whom purchased by
B.F. Jones, Pittsburgh, 1926;
Mrs. C.W. Dresselhuis, New York;
Lorraine Manville, New York, by 1959;
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
By whom sold, New York, Christie's, January 9, 1981, lot 145.
Exhibited
Literature
Sedelmeyer Gallery, Twelfth Hundred of Paintings by Old Masters, Paris 1913, p. 130 (84) illustrated;
W. Armstrong, Lawrence, 1913, p. 147, plate XXV, as by Lawrence;
K. Garlick, Sir Thomas Lawrence, London 1954, p. 44, as a repetition;
K. Garlick, "A catalogue of the paintings, drawings and pastels of Sir Thomas Lawrence", Walpole Society XXXIX, 1962-64, p. 113 (feels that the head may be from the Lawrence studio, but that judging from photographs, the rest may have been executed later in the 19th century);
K. Garlick, Sir Thomas Lawrence, a complete catalogue of the oil paintings, New York 1989, p. 214, under cat. no. 440.