Thomas Lawrence

Sir Thomas Lawrence, P.R.A. (Bristol 1769-1830 London) Portrait of Charles Poulett Thomson, later Baron Sydenham, (1799-1841), half-length, holding a cat black and red chalk 11¾ x 9 in. (29.9 x 22.8 cm.) By descent in the sitter's family. London, W/S Fine Art, Summer 2009, no. 51. NO RESERVE Born in Wimbledon, the youngest of the nine children of John Thomson, a London merchant engaged in trade with Russia and the Baltic, Thomson entered the family business working in both the St Petersburg and London offices intermittently until 1824 when he settled permanently in London and became involved in politics. A varied and ambitious career followed, initially as MP for Dover in May 1826, and again in 1830 and 1831, and then MP for Manchester in 1834 and 1837, but also involving roles such as President of the Board of Trade and Treasurer of the Navy, culminating in the demanding position of Governor-in-Chief of British North America, where he successfully negotiated the union of Upper and Lower Canada, for which he was made Baron Sydenham on 19 August 1840.

Lot Description Sir Thomas Lawrence, P.R.A. (Bristol 1769-1830 London) and another hand Portrait of Lady Louisa Harvey, full-length, and her children Edward and Louisa, on a balcony with signature 'T Lawrence' (lower left) oil on canvas 94¼ x 58¾ in. (239.5 x 149.2 cm.) Lot Condition Report I confirm that I have read this Important Notice and agree to its terms. View Condition Report Provenance Admiral Sir Eliab Harvey, Rolls Park, Chigwell, Essex, by descent to Mr. and Mrs. William Lloyd, Aston Hall, Oswestry, Shropshire, by descent to William Lloyd, Aston Hall, Oswestry, Shropshire. The North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh, 1952. Pre-Lot Text PROPERTY OF THE NORTH CAROLINA MUSEUM OF ART, SOLD TO BENEFIT THE ACQUISITIONS FUND Literature K. Garlick, Sir Thomas Lawrence, London, 1954, pp. 42, 69, 70, 72- 73. W.R. Valentiner, Catalogue of Paintings: Including Three Sets of Tapestries, Raleigh, 1956, p. 58, no. 95, as Lawrence. C.W. Stanford, Masterpieces in the North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh, 1966, no. 9, as Lawrence. The North Carolina Museum of Art, British Paintings to 1900: Catalogue of Paintings, Raleigh, 1969, II, pp. 58-59, no. 93, as Lawrence. E. P. Brown, ed., Introduction to the Collections, Chapel Hill, 1983, pp. 122-123, as Lawrence. K. Garlick, Sir Thomas Lawrence, Oxford, 1989, p. 392, no. 394, as '3 heads not finished'. Exhibited Worcester, Worcester Art Museum, Sir Thomas Lawrence, Regency Painter: A Loan Exhibition of his Portraits, 27 April-6 June 1960, no. 7. View Lot Notes ›

LOT 130 SIR THOMAS LAWRENCE, P.R.A. BRISTOL 1769 - 1830 LONDON PORTRAIT OF FRANCES ANNE, LADY CREWE (1748-1818) indistinctly inscribed on the reverse of the stretcher, and on an old label on the verso: Painted in one sitting by Sir Tho s . Lawrence / " The beautiful Mrs. Crewe " / Frances, d. of Fulke Greville Esq / M. 1766 1 st . Baron Crewe / Died: Dec. 1818 oil on canvas, oval 43 by 35.5 cm.; 17 by 14 in.

Sir Thomas Lawrence, P.R.A. (Bristol 1769-1830 London) Portrait of a lady, half-length, in a yellow dress with blue ribbons pastel, oval 9½ x 7½ in. (24.2 x 19 cm.) with Philip Mould, London. Lawrence was a child prodigy, drawing portraits in pencil from the age of eight. When the family moved to Bath, following his father's bankruptcy in 1780, he began drawing in pastel, probably taught by William Hoare. He first exhibited at the Royal Academy in pastel in 1787, but had abandoned the medium almost entirely after 1790. The degree of accomplishment of the present work suggests that it was executed towards the end of this period.

Sir Thomas Lawrence, P.R.A. (Bristol 1769-1830 London) Portrait of Rebecca, Lady Simeon (d. 1830), half-length, in a white dress and fur wrap, a wooded landscape beyond oil on canvas 30¼ x 25 1/8 in. (76.8 x 63.8 cm.) by descent in the sitter's family to Laura, Lady Simeon; Christie's, London, 4 July 1919, lot 35 (2,400gns. to the following). with Thos. Agnew and Sons, London, 1921, from whom acquired by Horace Trumbauer, New York. with French & Co., New York, 1955. Anonymous sale; Sotheby's, London, 24 November 1999, lot 67 (£32,200). K. Garlick, Sir Thomas Lawrence, London, 1954, p. 58. K. Garlick, 'A Catalogue of the paintings and pastels of Sir Thomas Lawrence', The Walpole Society, XXXIX, 1962-1964, p. 177. K. Garlick, Sir Thomas Lawrence: A complete catalogue of the oil paintings, Oxford, 1989, pp. 265-6, no. 718. Columbus, Columbus Gallery of Fine Arts, Sir Thomas Lawrence as Painter and Collector, 1955, no. 26. The sitter was the eldest daughter of John Cornwall of Hendon House, Middlesex. On 14 June 1783 she married Sir John Simeon Bt. (1756-1824) of Walliscot, Oxfordshire.