Sir Thomas Lawrence PRA
Portrait of Mrs James Denham, 1789
Chalk on paper
18 x 12 1/4 in (45.8 x 31.2 cm)
Signed and dated l.r. ''TL./1789''
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To view all current artworks for sale visit philipmould.com This exquisite drawing is among Lawrence's most impressive works, and shows the delicacy and refinement of execution, and the elegance of...
To view all current artworks for sale visit philipmould.com
This exquisite drawing is among Lawrence's most impressive works, and shows the delicacy and refinement of execution, and the elegance of vision which explain the artist’s complete dominance of fashionable portraiture for the next four decades. The most striking feature of the portrait, perhaps, is Mrs Denham's large and elaborate hat, a fashion of the 1780s later known as a picture hat from its prominence in the paintings of Lawrence and Thomas Gainsborough.
Literature
Kenneth Garlick A catalogue of the paintings,drawings and pastels of Sir Thomas Lawrence The Walpole Society vol. XXXIX p. 223.