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Thomas Lawrence: Portrait of Rebecca Cornwall, Lady Simeon (d. 1830)  wikidata:Q122866594 reasonator:Q122866594
Artist
Thomas Lawrence  (1769–1830)  wikidata:Q312096 s:en:Portal:Thomas Lawrence
 
Thomas Lawrence
Description British painter and portraitist
Date of birth/death 13 April 1769 Edit this at Wikidata 7 January 1830 Edit this at Wikidata
Location of birth/death Bristol Edit this at Wikidata London Edit this at Wikidata
Work period 1780 Edit this at Wikidata–1830 Edit this at Wikidata
Authority file
artist QS:P170,Q312096
image of artwork listed in title parameter on this page
Title
Portrait of Rebecca Cornwall, Lady Simeon (d. 1830)
label QS:Len,"Portrait of Rebecca Cornwall, Lady Simeon (d. 1830)"
Object type painting
object_type QS:P31,Q3305213
Genre portrait Edit this at Wikidata
Description
Rebecca Cornwall was the daughter of John Cornwall of Hendon House. In 1783 she married Sir John Simeon, Bart. (1756-1824) of Walliscot, Oxfordshire. The M.P. for Reading 1797-1802 and 1806-1818, he was also a practicing barrister and a member of Lincoln's Inn as well as Recorder of Reading 1779-1807 and Master in Chancery from 1795 until 1808 when he became Senior Master. Lady Simeon died in 1830.
Date early 1790s
date QS:P571,+1790-00-00T00:00:00Z/8
Medium oil on canvas
medium QS:P186,Q296955;P186,Q12321255,P518,Q861259
Dimensions height: 30.2 in (76.8 cm); width: 25.1 in (63.9 cm)
dimensions QS:P2048,30.25U218593
dimensions QS:P2049,25.175U218593
Object history
Provenance
  • before 1919
    date QS:P,+1919-00-00T00:00:00Z/7,P1326,+1919-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
    : inherited by Laura, Lady Simeon from familial descent
  • 4 July 1919: purchased by Thomas Agnew and Sons, London at the sale of the collection of Laura, Lady Simeon at Christie's, London, lot no. 35, for 2,400 guineas
  • 1921: purchased by Horace Trumbauer, New York from Thomas Agnew and Sons, London
  • by 1954
    date QS:P,+1954-00-00T00:00:00Z/7,P1326,+1954-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
    : French & Co., New York
  • 24 November 1999: anonymous sale at Sotheby's, London (auction house), lot no. 67, for £32,000
  • 29 January 2009: anonymous sale at Sotheby's, New York (auction house), lot no. 199, unsold, for a pre-sale estimate of $60,000 - $80,000 (as Portrait of Rebecca, Lady Simeon (d. 1830))
  • 5 December 2012: anonymous sale at Christie's, London (auction house), result unknown, for a pre-sale estimate of £20,000 - £30,000 (as Portrait of Rebecca, Lady Simeon (d. 1830), half-length, in a white dress and fur wrap, a wooded landscape beyond)
Exhibition history Sir Thomas Lawrence as Painter and Collector, Columbus Gallery of Fine Arts, Columbus, 7 October 1955–13 November 1955, cat. no.  26.
References
  • Garlick, Kenneth (1954) Sir Thomas Lawrence, English master painters, London: Routledge & Paul, p. 58 OCLC: 1209569.
  • Garlick, Kenneth (1964). "A catalogue of the paintings, drawings and pastels of Sir Thomas Lawrence". The Walpole Society 39: 177.
  • Garlick, Kenneth (1989) Sir Thomas Lawrence: A Complete Catalogue of the Oil Paintings, Washington Square, N.Y.: New York University Press, no. 718 , pp. 265−266 ISBN: 9780814730225. "whereabouts unknown"
Source/Photographer Christie's (no longer in online catalogue)

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