STUDIO OF SIR THOMAS LAWRENCE, P.R.A. | PORTRAIT OF THOMAS GODFREY (1751-1810), HALF-LENGTH, IN A BROWN COAT WITH A BLACK VELVET COLLAR AND A WHITE STOCK

By descent from the sitters (recorded in the collection of Major E.A. Godfrey, Houghton, Huntingdon, in 1964; see Garlick 1964);

Until anonymously offered ('The Property of a Gentleman'), London, Christie's, 17 July 1992, lot 12, where unsold and acquired post-sale by the present owner.

K. Garlick, Sir Thomas Lawrence, London 1954, Appendix II, p. 70, no. 60;

K. Garlick, 'A Catalogue of the paintings, drawings and pastels of Sir Thomas Lawrence', in The Walpole Society, vol. XXXIX, 1964, p. 90;

K. Garlick, Sir Thomas Lawrence. A complete catalogue of the oil paintings, Oxford 1989, p. 196, cat. no. 333.

Thomas Godfrey (né Jull) of Brook Street House, Sandwich, Kent, was the eldest son of Thomas Jull of Ash, Sandwich, by his wife Susan Tilley. His father was grandson of Miss Amy Godfrey, wife of William Courthope of Stodmarshe Court, who died in 1742. He succeeded to the estates of his kinsman, Thomas Godfrey, and took the name of Godfrey by Act of Parliament in January 1799. He was M.P. for Hythe (1802-07) and married Elizabeth Fuller in 1778 (please see the previous lot for her portrait).