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LAWRENCE, Sir Thomas

Bristol, 1769 - London, 1830

Portrait de Mrs Allnutt dit aussi Portrait de miss Sweeting Portrait of Mrs Allnutt also known as Portrait of Miss Sweeting

Vers 1800

Oil on canvas

H. 1.28 m; W. 1.02 m

On the reverse, on the top : Miss Sweeting / Afterwards Mrs Alnutt / Painted by Sir Thomas Lawrence PRA / CCM Kirdy August / 1862 and centered: Bought / from ( mot illisible ) / Henry Graves / 6 Pall Mall / London / 2 th July : 1862 : CCM Kirdy

Lyon, musée des Beaux-Arts

Inv. 1977 15

Painting

Charles Sweeting, sale Christie's june 14 1862 n°123, (at that time, full size portrait). Coll. Henry Graves, antique dealer, purchased at D. C. Mackirdy. Remained in its family until his London sale of June 18, 1976 at Christie' S (n°105). Purchased by Agews and Sounds. Purchased by the museum of Lyon in 1977.

18th century

Bibliography

Revue du Louvre, 1977, p.257, fig. 5, p. 258.

Kenneth Garlick. Sir Thomas Lawrence. New-York University Press, 1989, n° 22 du catalogue.

Valérie Lavergne-Durey et Hans Buijs, Catalogue sommaire illustré des peintures du Musée des Beaux-Arts de Lyon, I. Ecoles étrangères XIIIe- XIXe siècles, Paris, éd. de la RMN, 1993, p. 276.

Cat. exp. Le portrait dans les collections des Musées Rhône-Alpes, Bourg en Bresse, Musée de Brou, Chambéry, musée savoisien, , Valence, Musée des beaux-Arts, 24 juin - 24 septembre 2001, Paris, éd. de la RMN, n°123.

Patrice Béghain, Inconnus célèbres, éd. Stéphane Baches, 2004, p. 51-52.