Sir Thomas Lawrence, P.R.A.

Painted for Sir Robert Peel (1788-1850), 2nd Baronet, Whitehall Gardens, London, and Drayton Manor, Tamworth, Staffordshire, in 1826-1828;

By whose descendants sold ("Under an Order of the High Court of Justice, Chancery Division—By Direction of the Trustees of the Settled Estates of Sir Robert Peel, Bart., of Drayton Manor, Tamworth"), London, Robinson & Fisher, 6 June 1907, lot 179;

Where acquired by Charles John Wertheimer (1842-1911), Park Lane, London, for £8,400;

Sir George Alexander Cooper (1856-1940), 1st Baronet, Hursley Park, Hampshire;

Thence by descent to Sir George James Robertson Cooper (1890-1961), 2nd Baronet, Hursley Park, Hampshire;

By whose trustees sold ("The Property of the Trustees of The Hursley Settlement") London, Christie's, 16 July 1982, lot 71;

Where acquired by Noortman & Brod, Maastricht, London, and New York;

From whom acquired by Renata and Michal Hornstein, Montreal, 1983;

From whom acquired via private sale, Sotheby's, New York, by Jordan and Thomas A. Saunders III, 1999.

The Life and Correspondence of Sir Thomas Lawrence, K^T, D.E. Williams (ed.), London 1831, vol. I, p. 55; vol. II, pp. 483-484, 489-490; 

A. Jameson, Companion to the Most Private Celebrated Galleries of Art in London, London 1844, p. 374, cat. no. 91;

G. Waagen, Treasures of Art in Great Britain, London 1854, vol. I, p. 414;

R.S. Gower, Sir Thomas Lawrence, London 1900, p. 154;

Exhibition of Old English Masters, exhibition catalogue, Berlin 1908, n.p., cat. no. 40;

W. Armstrong, Lawrence, London 1913, p. 157;

The Private Letters of Sir Robert Peel, G. Peel (ed.), London 1920, p. 82, reproduced;

Loan Exhibition of Paintings by Sir Thomas Lawrence, P.R.A., In aid of the Association of the Friends of the Bristol Art Gallery, exhibition catalogue, London 1951, p. 17, cat. no. 7;

Sir Thomas Lawrence, P.R.A., exhibition catalogue, Brighton 1951, p. 8, cat. no. 5;

K. Garlick, Sir Thomas Lawrence, London 1954, p. 53, reproduced pl. 103;

K. Garlick, "A Catalogue of the paintings, drawings and pastels of Sir Thomas Lawrence," in Walpole Society 39 (1962-1964), pp. 159-160;

18th and 19th Century British Paintings, exhibition catalogue, New York and London 1983, n.p., cat. no. 8, reproduced; 

K. Garlick, Sir Thomas Lawrence, A Complete Catalogue of the Oil Paintings, New York and Oxford 1989, p. 251, cat. no. 639, reproduced pl. 92;

F.J. Duparc, The Renata and Michal Hornstein Collection, European Old Masters, Montreal 1990, unpublished manuscript, n.p., cat. no. 56;

M. Levey, Sir Thomas Lawrence, New Haven and London 2005, pp. 8, 276, 285-286, reproduced pl. 153;

C. Albinson, in Thomas Lawrence: Regency Power & Brilliance, exhibition catalogue, C. Albinson, P. Funnell, and L. Peltz (eds.), New Haven and London 2010, pp. 286-288, cat. no. 54, reproduced;

C. Yarger, in With Observation and Imagination: Still Lifes, Genre Scenes, Portraits, and Landscapes from the Saunders Collection, exhibition catalogue, A. K. Wheelock, Jr. (ed.), New York 2021, pp. 160-163, 179, cat. no. 39, reproduced.

London, Royal Academy, 1828, no. 77;

Berlin, Königliche Akademie der Künste, Exhibition of Old English Masters, 1908, no. 82 (lent by Charles Wertheimer);

London, Thos. Agnew & Sons, Loan Exhibition of Paintings by Sir Thomas Lawrence, P.R.A., In aid of the Association of the Friends of the Bristol Art Gallery, 17 May - 23 June 1951, no. 7;

Brighton Art Gallery, Sir Thomas Lawrence, P.R.A., 14 July - 26 August 1951, no. 5 (lent by Sir George Cooper, Bt.);

New York and London, Noortman & Brod, 18th and 19th Century British Paintings, 12 April - 29 July 1983, no. 8;

New Haven, Yale Center for British Art, Thomas Lawrence: Regency Power & Brilliance, 24 February - 5 June 2011, no. 54;

Richmond, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Elegance and Wonder: Masterpieces of European Art from the Jordan and Thomas A. Saunders III Collection, 20 March 2023 - 30 January 2025, no. 39.

ENGRAVED

Childhood's Companion, Samuel Cousins, 1833.