ID 1126346
Lot 195 | SIR THOMAS LAWRENCE, P.R.A. (BRISTOL 1769-1830 LONDON)
Estimate value
$ 50 000 – 80 000
Portrait of Charles Gardiner, 1st Earl of Blessington (1782-1829), full-length, in coronation robes, by a draped table and balustrade
oil on canvas
93 ½ x 56 ½ in. (237.5 x 143.6 cm.)
Provenance
By inheritance in the sitter's family to,
Lady Jennifer Fowler (1949-2013), Rahinston, Summerhill, Ireland; [The Property of Lady Jennifer Fowler], Christie's, London, 8 December 2010, lot 273.
Art market, London, where acquired by the present owner.
Literature
(Probably) K. Garlick, Sir Thomas Lawrence, London, 1954, p. 51, no. 2, under Viscount Mountjoy, and Appendix III, p. 73, no. 22.
(Probably) K. Garlick, ‘A catalogue of the paintings, drawings and pastels of Sir Thomas Lawrence’, Walpole Society, XXXIX, London, 1964, p. 37-38, no. 2 and Appendix IV, p. 293, no. 201.
K. Garlick, Sir Thomas Lawrence: A Complete Catalogue of the Oil Paintings, Oxford, 1989, p. 154, under no. 111(b).
Exhibited
Boston, Museum of Fine Arts, April 2014, on loan.
| Artist: | Thomas Lawrence (1769 - 1830) |
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| Applied technique: | Oil on canvas |
| Art style: | Old Masters |
| Genre: | Portrait |
| Place of origin: | England, Northern Europe, Europe, United Kingdom |
| Auction house category: | Paintings, Watercolors, Drawings, Paintings |
| Artist: | Thomas Lawrence (1769 - 1830) |
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| Applied technique: | Oil on canvas |
| Art style: | Old Masters |
| Genre: | Portrait |
| Place of origin: | England, Northern Europe, Europe, United Kingdom |
| Auction house category: | Paintings, Watercolors, Drawings, Paintings |
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