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Sir Thomas Lawrence P. R .A. Bristol 1769 - 1830 London
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40,000 - 60,000 USD
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Description
- Sir Thomas Lawrence, P. R .A.
- Portrait of Sir Thomas Frankland, 6th Bt., MP, FRS (1750-1831)
- half-length, wearing a dark coat and white stock, a red curtain behind
inscribed across the bottom at a later date SIR THOS FRANKLAND/B. 1750 OB 18 I 6TH BARONET, HIGH SHERIFF, YORKS:1792. M.P. THIRSK. 1774-80. 1784-90. 1796-01. Erected THIRKLEBY House. 1782-90. SIR T. LAWRENCE - oil on canvas
Provenance
Sir Thomas Frankland, 6th Bt., Thirkleby Hall, Yorkshire;
Thence by descent to Sir Frederick W.F.G. Frankland, 10th Bt., Thirkleby Hall, Yorkshire;
With Howard Young, New York, 1927;
Arthur J. Secor, 1927-33;
By whom given to the Toledo Museum of Art in 1933 (Acc. no. 33.35).
Thence by descent to Sir Frederick W.F.G. Frankland, 10th Bt., Thirkleby Hall, Yorkshire;
With Howard Young, New York, 1927;
Arthur J. Secor, 1927-33;
By whom given to the Toledo Museum of Art in 1933 (Acc. no. 33.35).
Literature
K. Garlick, Sir Thomas Lawrence, London 1954, p. 37;
K. Garlick, "A Catalogue of the Paintings, Drawings and Pastels of Sir Thomas Lawrence," in The Walpole Society, XXXIX, 1962-64, p. 82 (as ca 1810-15);
The Toledo Museum of Art, European Paintings, Toledo 1976, p. 93, reproduced Plate 327;
J.D. Morse, Old Master Paintings in North America, New York 1979, p. 194;
K. Garlick, Sir Thomas Lawrence, A complete catalogue of the oil paintings, New York 1989, p. 190, no. 310, reproduced.
K. Garlick, "A Catalogue of the Paintings, Drawings and Pastels of Sir Thomas Lawrence," in The Walpole Society, XXXIX, 1962-64, p. 82 (as ca 1810-15);
The Toledo Museum of Art, European Paintings, Toledo 1976, p. 93, reproduced Plate 327;
J.D. Morse, Old Master Paintings in North America, New York 1979, p. 194;
K. Garlick, Sir Thomas Lawrence, A complete catalogue of the oil paintings, New York 1989, p. 190, no. 310, reproduced.
Catalogue Note
Sir Thomas Frankland, 6th Bt. was a prominent bota♒nist and a Fellow of the Royal Society. He was also an author, classical scholar and an authority on British sports. He served three times as Member of Parliament for Thirsk between 1774 and 1801, and in 1792 was High Sheriff of Yorkshire. In 1775, he married Dorothy, daughter of William Smelt of Leases, Bedale, Yorkshire, by whom he had an only son, Sir Robert Frankland-Russell, 7th Bt. Frankland commissioned James and Samuel Wyatt to build Thirkelby Hall (1788) which was sold by t꧃he Frankland family in 1927 was later destroyed.