The Property of a Gentleman
Sir Thomas Lawrence, P.R.A.
Portrait of Elizabeth Jennings, Mrs William Lock II, half-length, wearing a brown dress with a white collar and cap
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50,000 - 70,000 GBP
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35,000 GBP
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The Property of a Gentleman
Sir Thomas Lawrence, P.R.A.
Bristol 1769–1830 London
Portrait of Elizabeth Jennings, Mrs William Lock II, half-length, wearing a brown dress with a white collar and cap
oil on canvas, unframed
76.2 x 63.5 cm.; 30 x 25 in.
By family descent from the sitter to her grandson, Erroll Blake, 4th Lord Wallscourt (1841–1918), Ardfry, County Galway;
Thence by descent to his daughter, the Hon. Mrs Elizabeth Lucy Eily Storr (1879–1966), East Cowes;
Thence by descent within the family;
By whom sold ('The Property of a Lady'), London, Christie's, 12 July 1990, lot 53;
Private collection, England.
New Haven, Yale Center for British Art; Fort Worth, Kimbell Art Museum; and Richmond, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Sir Thomas Lawrence: Portraits of an Age, 1790–1830, 27 February – 25 April; 15 May – 11 July; and 3 August – 26 September 1993, no. 28.
K. Garlick, 'A Catalogue of the Paintings, Drawings and Pastels of Sir Thomas Lawrence', in The Walpole Society, vol. XXXIX, 1964, p. 113, no. 3;
K. Garlick, Sir Thomas Lawrence. A complete catalogue of the paintings, Oxford 1989, p. 214, no. 440 (c);
K. Garlick, Sir Thomas Lawrence: Portraits of an Age, 1790–1830, exh. cat., New Haven 1993, pp. 74–75, no. 28, reproduced in colour.
Elizabeth Jennings, the daughter of the eccentric collector Constantine 'Dog' Jennings, married William Lock the Younger (1767–1847) of Norbury Park, a gifted amateur artist who was a pupil and friend of Henry Fuseli (1741–1825). His father, William Lock the Elder (1732–1810), had been an early patron of Thomas Lawrence; Lawrence's portrait of his wife, Frederica Augusta, in the Nelson-Atkins Museum, is considered one of the artist's finest works.1
This painting probably dates from circa 1810, the year of the death of William Lock the Elder, which may account for the sitter's rather sombre dress.
1 Inv. no. 54-36; oil on panel, 76.2 x 62.39 cm.; https://art.nelson-atkins.org/objects/26337/mrs-william-lock-of-norbury
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