Art + Antiques: Featuring The Birger Sandzen Collection
Sat, Nov 23, 2019 01:00AM EST
Lot 81
'Mother & Son' Oil With Old Thomas Lawrence Attribution
Sold for
$13,500
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Attributed to Sir Thomas Lawrence
(English, 1769-1830)
Mother & Son
Oil on canvas
50 1/2" x 40 1/4"
A large-scale oil portrait of a mother and her son, executed circa 1800, with an old attribution to Sir Thomas Lawrence, the preeminent Romantic portrait artist of European royalty and the fourth president of the Royal Academy of Arts. The sitters are beautifully painted with rosy countenance, the lady portrayed standing before a red curtain in black mourning garments and the young boy nicely dressed and seated on a velvet roll-arm. The piece is presented in a period English Regency gilt frame, early 19th century.
To the reverse is written in pencil in vintage hand: "Sir Thos. Lawrence Portrait Mrs. Lawrence & Son". The painting is elsewhere listed in an old 1966 will as "the painting of Mrs. Lawrence and son", though no evidence is given in support of this connection or identification of the sitters.
Provenance: From a Kansas City, Missouri collection. Paperwork tracing the painting's ownership inside the family's possession as far back as 1965, when it was in the possession of a gentleman of means in the lumber industry. That gentleman donated the Stonehouse residence (also known as the Rockhill House) to the William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art (now the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art), and is known to have made a donation of artwork to the Smithsonian Museum of Art. Among the paperwork included is the conservation documentation of a 1965 cleaning done by James Roth of the William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art (which refers to the work as Sir Thomas Lawrence), as well as a copy of a hand-written 1966 will (which also refers to the work as an original Sir Thomas Lawrence) bequeathing the work to another family member, along with works by Childe Hassam and Pierre-Auguste Renoir.
Restoration and cleaning of the painting was executed by James Roth of the Nelson Gallery in 1965. At that time, he re-lined the canvas with linen, removed varnish and overpaint, and applied a new coating of varnish.
Presently, there is modest craquelure across the surface, but not to a distracting degree. There are two areas of relatively minor scratches (one to the top left above the figures' heads, one to the mother's garments left of her elbow), and there is a minor loss of a chip of paint (1/8") to the top left-center. The antique frame has some losses to the gilt gesso.
(English, 1769-1830)
Mother & Son
Oil on canvas
50 1/2" x 40 1/4"
A large-scale oil portrait of a mother and her son, executed circa 1800, with an old attribution to Sir Thomas Lawrence, the preeminent Romantic portrait artist of European royalty and the fourth president of the Royal Academy of Arts. The sitters are beautifully painted with rosy countenance, the lady portrayed standing before a red curtain in black mourning garments and the young boy nicely dressed and seated on a velvet roll-arm. The piece is presented in a period English Regency gilt frame, early 19th century.
To the reverse is written in pencil in vintage hand: "Sir Thos. Lawrence Portrait Mrs. Lawrence & Son". The painting is elsewhere listed in an old 1966 will as "the painting of Mrs. Lawrence and son", though no evidence is given in support of this connection or identification of the sitters.
Provenance: From a Kansas City, Missouri collection. Paperwork tracing the painting's ownership inside the family's possession as far back as 1965, when it was in the possession of a gentleman of means in the lumber industry. That gentleman donated the Stonehouse residence (also known as the Rockhill House) to the William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art (now the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art), and is known to have made a donation of artwork to the Smithsonian Museum of Art. Among the paperwork included is the conservation documentation of a 1965 cleaning done by James Roth of the William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art (which refers to the work as Sir Thomas Lawrence), as well as a copy of a hand-written 1966 will (which also refers to the work as an original Sir Thomas Lawrence) bequeathing the work to another family member, along with works by Childe Hassam and Pierre-Auguste Renoir.
Condition
Presently, there is modest craquelure across the surface, but not to a distracting degree. There are two areas of relatively minor scratches (one to the top left above the figures' heads, one to the mother's garments left of her elbow), and there is a minor loss of a chip of paint (1/8") to the top left-center. The antique frame has some losses to the gilt gesso.
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