Portrait of a lady, traditionally identified as Mrs Finch, half-length, in a white dress with a pearl neckelace and a headdress

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Sir Thomas Lawrence, P.R.A. (Bristol 1769-1840 London)
Portrait of a lady, traditionally identified as Mrs Finch, half-length, in a white dress with a pearl neckelace and a headdress
oil on canvas
30 1/8 x 25 7/8 in. (76.3 x 64.6 cm.)

Provenance

(Probably) R. Turner, London.
with Newhouse Galleries, Inc., New York.
Anonymous sale; Sotheby's, New York, 27 May 2004, lot 284 ($54,000 to the present owner).

Literature

(Probably) D.E. Williams, The Life and Correspondence of Sir Thomas Lawrence, London, 1831, pp. 142 and 457.
(Probably) R. Sutherland Gower, Sir Thomas Lawrence, London, 1900, p. 128.
(Probably) W. Armstrong, Lawrence, London, 1913, p. 132.
(Probably) K. Garlick, Sir Thomas Lawrence, Boston, 1955, p. 37.
(Probably) K. Garlick, 'A Catalogue of the Paintings, Drawings and Pastels of Sir Thomas Lawrence', The Walpole Society, XXXIX, 1964, p. 80.
(Probably) K. Garlick, Sir Thomas Lawrence: A Complete Catalogue of the Paintings, Oxford, 1989, p. 188, no. 297.

Exhibited

(Probably) London, Royal Academy, 1793, no. 235, as 'Portrait of a Lady'.

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Descriptif du lot

A portrait of Mrs Finch by Lawrence is well documented. The sitter of the present portrait has traditionally been identified as Mrs Finch and is probably the painting listed in the Lawrence literature.

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