A Portrait Of Julia Peel, After Sir Thomas Lawrence (1769-1830)

After Sir Thomas Lawrence (1769-1830)

A Portrait of Julia Peel

Medium: Oil on canvas

Period: Circa 1860

Overall dimensions with frame: 80 cm x 70 cm x 5 cm and the painting measures 69 cm x 56 cm

A finely painted 19th-century English School oil-on-canvas portrait after the original by Sir Thomas Lawrence. It is a particularly pleasing and well executed painting in keeping with the character and style of the original

The Portrait of Julia, Lady Peel is a portrait painted in 1827 by the English artist Sir Thomas Lawrence depicting Julia Peel, the wife of the politician Sir Robert Peel. She married Peel in 1820. When she sat for Lawrence, her husband was Home Secretary and later served twice as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (1834-1835, 1841-1846).

It was exhibited at the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition in 1827. The painting was sold by his grandson in 1896. It is now in the Frick Collection in New York.

Thomas Lawrence was born in Bristol and began drawing in Devizes, where his father was an innkeeper. At the age of ten, having moved to Bath, he was supporting his family with his pastel portraits. At eighteen he went to London and soon established his reputation as a portrait painter in oils, receiving his first royal commission, a portrait of Queen Charlotte, in 1790.

Lawrence was the leading British portrait painter of his generation. Self-taught, Lawrence was a brilliant draughtsman and known for his gift of capturing a true likeness. He was famed for his technical virtuosity as well as his imaginative approach to his compositions, aiming to seize the expression rather than merely copying his sitter’s features.

Lawrence became an associate of the Royal Academy in 1791, a full member in 1794, and the fourth president of the RA in 1820.

Condition Report: In very good, largely original condition. The painting has had some well-blended retouching and has been recently cleaned.

The original frame is refinished and in very good condition.

In our opinion the painting is ready to hang.

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