Portrait of Catherine Grey, Lady Manners

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Portrait of Catherine Grey, Lady Manners

Thomas LawrenceLinkedCulture matchlcp-62ed1a7e590a

Date
1794
Medium
oil on canvas
Culture
England, 18th century
Department
European Painting and Sculpture
Institution
Cleveland Museum of Art
Object ID
136682

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The Irish poet Lady Manners rejected as “unflattering” this portrait representing her as the goddess Juno, symbolized here by the peacock. Thomas Lawrence exhibited the painting at the Royal Academy in 1794 with the label “to be disposed of [sold],” but it was still in the artist’s collection when he died. Though it offended Lady Manners, the painting displays all the hallmarks of Lawrence’s flamboyant style:dazzling, fluid brushwork and an innovative use of unconventional colors that helped secure his role as the most fashionable portrait painter in turn-of-the-century Britain. Catherine was an Irish poet who wrote of longing to escape the fashionable world.

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Credit line
Bequest of John D. Rockefeller Jr.
Provenance
1794-1830: property of the artist, Sir Thomas Lawrence [1769-1830] | 1831: (Christie's, London Sir Thomas Lawrence sale, June 18, 1831, no. 147, purchased by Samuel Woodburn) | 1831-?: Samuel Woodburn; sold to Frederick John Fifth Baron Monson | ?-1888: Frederick John, Fifth Baron Monson [died 1841], and his heirs, Gatton Park, Surrey; sold at Christie's, London | (Christie's, London, May 12, 1888, no. 21, sold to Davis) | 1888: Davis | 1888-?: William, Fifth Earl of Carysfort | Lady Carysfort; by descent to her nephew Douglas James Proby | Colonel Douglas James Proby, Elton Hall, Huntingdonshire | 1919-?: (Duveen Brothers) | 1924-?: Jules S. Bach, New York | ?-1960: John D. Rockefeller, Jr. [1874-1960]; by bequest to the Cleveland Museum of Art | 1961-: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH

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