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SIR THOMAS LAWRENCE, P.R.A. (BRISTOL 1769-1830 LONDON)

Lot 175
05.02.2025 14:00UTC -05:00
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Lot 175 | SIR THOMAS LAWRENCE, P.R.A. (BRISTOL 1769-1830 LONDON)
Estimate value
$ 70 000 – 100 000
SIR THOMAS LAWRENCE, P.R.A. (BRISTOL 1769-1830 LONDON)
Portrait of Cropley Ashley-Cooper (1768-1851), 6th Earl of Shaftesbury, half-length
oil on canvas
50 x 40 in. (127 x 101.6 cm.)




Provenance

By descent from the sitter to,
Anthony Ashley-Cooper (1938-2004), 10th Earl of Shaftesbury, St. Giles House, Dorset; and by whom sold, [The Property of the Earl of Shaftesbury, Removed from St. Gile's House, Dorset], Christie’s, London, 27 June 1980, lot 162.
with Spink & Son Ltd., London, by November 1980.
Anonymous sale; Sotheby’s, London, 9 April 1997, lot 44, where acquired by the present owner.



Literature

Lord R. Sutherland Gower, Sir Thomas Lawrence, London, 1900, p. 158.
A. Graves, The Royal Academy of Arts, A Complete Dictionary of Contributors of their work from its foundation in 1769 to 1904, V, London, 1906, p. 4, no. 13; 1972, p. 4, no. 13.
W. Armstrong, Lawrence, New York, 1913, pp. 123 and 162.
K.J. Garlick, Sir Thomas Lawrence, London, 1954, pp. 33 and 57.
K.J. Garlick, ‘A Catalogue of the Paintings, Drawings and Pastels of Sir Thomas Lawrence,' Walpole Society, XXXIX, 1964, pp. 59 and 174.
Advertisement, The Burlington Magazine, November 1980, p. xxi, illustrated.
K.J. Garlick, Sir Thomas Lawrence, Oxford, 1989, p. 263, no. 710, illustrated.
M. Levey, Sir Thomas Lawrence, New Haven and London, 2005, p. 168.
J. Lant, A Connoisseur's Journey: Being the artful memoirs of a man of wit, discernment, pluck, and joy, Cambridge, 2015, pp. cccxlix.



Exhibited

London, Royal Academy, 1811, no. 13.
London, Spink & Son Ltd., English Oil Paintings, 11-28 November 1980, unnumbered.
London, Spink & Son Ltd., English Portraits: oil paintings and drawings, 27 October -16 November 1981, unnumbered.



Engraved

C. Turner, 1812.



Sale room notice

Please note the additional literature for this lot:
M. Levey, Sir Thomas Lawrence, New Haven and London, 2005, p. 168.
J. Lant, A Connoisseur's Journey: Being the artful memoirs of a man of wit, discernment, pluck, and joy, Cambridge, 2015, pp. cccxlix.
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