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

Lot 233
02.07.2025 00:00UTC +01:00
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ID 1443152
Lot 233 | SIR THOMAS LAWRENCE, P.R.A. (BRISTOL 1769-1830 LONDON)
Estimate value
£ 50 000 – 80 000
SIR THOMAS LAWRENCE, P.R.A. (BRISTOL 1769-1830 LONDON)
Portrait of Robert Stewart, 2nd Marquess of Londonderry, called Lord Castlereagh (1769-1822), bust-length, wearing the star of the Order of the Garter
oil on canvas
30 ½ x 25 5/8 in. (77.5 x 65.1 cm.)




Provenance

Commissioned in 1823 by Richard Meade, 3rd Earl of Clanwilliam (1795-1879), and by descent to the present owners.





Literature

K.J. Garlick, Sir Thomas Lawrence, London, 1954, p. 47, under no. 3, 'repetition' no. iii.
K.J. Garlick, ‘A catalogue of the paintings, drawings and pastels of Sir Thomas Lawrence’, Walpole Society, XXXIX, 1964, p. 130, under no. 3, 'replica' no. iii.
K.J. Garlick, Sir Thomas Lawrence: A complete catalogue of the oil paintings, Oxford, 1989, p. 228, under no. 507(c), 'replica' no. 3.



Exhibited

Belfast, Ulster Museum, An Exhibition of Portraits of Great Irish Men and Women, 24 June-24 July 1965, no. 210 (lent by the Earl of Clanwilliam).

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