BIB_ID
300548
Accession number
MA 1063.98
Creator
Lawrence, Thomas, Sir, 1769-1830.
Display Date
[1829] July 8.
Credit line
Gift of J.P. Morgan, Jr., 1928.
Description
1 item (8 p.) ; 17.9 cm
Notes
Docketed.
Marked "Private & Confidential."
Part of a large collection of letters from Sir Thomas Lawrence to the Irish politician and writer J. W. Croker. Letters have been described individually; see collection-level record for MA 1063 for more information.
Written from Russell Square.
Year from penciled notation on p. 1.
Marked "Private & Confidential."
Part of a large collection of letters from Sir Thomas Lawrence to the Irish politician and writer J. W. Croker. Letters have been described individually; see collection-level record for MA 1063 for more information.
Written from Russell Square.
Year from penciled notation on p. 1.
Provenance
Purchased by J.P. Morgan, Jr., from the London dealer J. Pearson & Co in 1928; gift of J.P. Morgan, Jr. in 1928.
Summary
Asking Croker to not mention Lawrence's prices.Favorably comparing himself to Sir Joshua [Reynolds], noting "I think there may be one point in which I excel Sir Joshua, and it is that which has enabled me to be so fortunate in my progress. I mean the knowledge of those frowns and lines which constitute Beauty." Offering as proof his paintings of Cato, Hamlet, and Locke in the current exhibition.
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