The British Sale: Paintings, Drawings and Watercolours

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Lot 67
  • 67

Sir Thomas Lawrence P.R.A. 1769-1830

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Description

  • Sir Thomas Lawrence P.R.A.
  • Portrait of Sir George Cornewall, 3rd Bt. (1774 - 1835) of Moccas Court
  • oil on canvas
half length, wearing a blue coat and a white necktie

Provenance

With Leger, 1946

Literature

Kenneth Garlick, Sir Thomas Lawrence, A Complete Catalogue of the Oil Paintings, 1989, no.211

Catalogue Note

The sitter was the son of Sir George Cornewall, and his wife, Catherine, daughter of Velters Cornewall, of Moccas, Herefordshire.  His father Sir George Amyand, a prosperous banker of Huguenot descent, took the name and arms of Cornewall on his marriage in 1771, and in 1775 set about building Moccas Court to the plans of Robert and James Adam.  He was MP for Herefordshire for 27 years.

The young George matriculated at Christ Church College, Oxford in 1792, and went on to serve as Colonel of the Herefordshire Militia.  On 26th September 1815 he was married to Jane, daughter of William Naper, of Loughcrew, County Meath.  He succeeded to the baronetcy in 1819.