id: 122346 accession number: 1942.642 share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1942.642 updated: 2022-07-29 09:00:14.391000 Portrait of Charlotte and Sarah Carteret-Hardy, 1801. Thomas Lawrence (British, 1769-1830). Oil on canvas; framed: 161 x 135 x 11 cm (63 3/8 x 53 1/8 x 4 5/16 in.); unframed: 129 x 103 cm (50 13/16 x 40 9/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Bequest of John L. Severance 1942.642 title: Portrait of Charlotte and Sarah Carteret-Hardy title in original language: series: series in original language: creation date: 1801 creation date earliest: 1801 creation date latest: 1801 current location: 203A British Painting and Decorative Arts creditline: Bequest of John L. Severance copyright: --- culture: England, early 19th Century technique: oil on canvas department: Modern European Painting and Sculpture collection: Mod Euro - Painting 1800-1960 type: Painting find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS * Thomas Lawrence (British, 1769-1830) - artist --- measurements: Framed: 161 x 135 x 11 cm (63 3/8 x 53 1/8 x 4 5/16 in.); Unframed: 129 x 103 cm (50 13/16 x 40 9/16 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS title: Exhibition of the John L. Severance Collection opening date: 1942-11-12T04:00:00 Exhibition of the John L. Severance Collection. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (November 12, 1942-March 14, 1943). title: Exhibition of the Month: A Portrait of the So-Called 'Column and Curtain' School opening date: 1943-10-01T04:00:00 Exhibition of the Month: A Portrait of the So-Called 'Column and Curtain' School. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (October 1-31, 1943). title: Sir Thomas Lawrence, Regency Painter opening date: 1960-04-27T04:00:00 Sir Thomas Lawrence, Regency Painter. Worcester Art Museum, Worcester, MA (organizer) (April 27-June 6, 1960). title: Style, Truth and the Portrait opening date: 1963-10-02T04:00:00 Style, Truth and the Portrait. The Cleveland Museum of Art (October 2-November 19, 1963). title: British Gallery Reinstallation (June 2020) opening date: 2020-06-30T04:00:00 British Gallery Reinstallation (June 2020). The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer). --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS --- PROVENANCE By descent to Daniel L. Lysons, Hempstead Court, Gloucestershire date: footnotes: citations: (Burton, Knowles & Co., Gloucester, 21 April, 1887, no.284) date: footnotes: citations: Camillo Roth (1888) date: footnotes: citations: Charles Crews (sale: Christie's, London, 1 July 1915, no. 105 to Colnaghi) date: footnotes: citations: John L. Severance date: footnotes: citations: By descent to Daniel L. Lysons, Hempstead Court, Gloucestershire (sale: Burton, Knowles & Co, Gloucester, 21 April, 1887, no. 284); Camillo Roth (1888); Charles Crews (sale: Christie's, London, 1 July, 1915, no. 105 to Colnaghi); (Colnaghi, London); John L. Severance date: footnotes: citations: John L. Severance [1863-1936], Cleveland, OH, by bequest to the Cleveland Museum of Art date: footnotes: citations: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH date: 1942- footnotes: citations: --- fun fact: Lawrence was a child prodigy and largely self-taught. At the early age of 10, he made accomplished portraits in crayon. digital description: wall description:
Charlotte (left) and Sarah were 19 and 21, respectively, when this portrait was painted on the occasion of Sarah’s marriage to the topographer Daniel Lysons. The sisters wear fashionable gowns and jewelry, but their affectionate posture conveys a sisterly tenderness that transcends glamour. There was a seemingly insatiable demand for Thomas Lawrence’s portraits representing stylish English society, but he was notoriously slow working. Although this picture was begun in 1801, it still was not finished in 1806 when a friend noted its presence in the artist’s studio. --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS John Long Severance Art Collection Photographs: Furniture, Cleveland Museum of Art Archives. page number: Reproduced: p. 301 url: https://archive.org/details/SeveranceFurniture/page/n299/mode/1up Catalogue of the John L. Severance Collection: Bequest of John L. Severance, 1936. [Cleveland, Ohio]: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1942. page number: Reproduced: p. [19], Plate VII, cat. no. 8; Mention: p. 22, cat. no. 8 url: https://archive.org/details/SeveranceBequest/page/n26 Paintings in the Cleveland Museum of Art. [Cleveland]: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1945. page number: Reproduced: p. 19 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAPaintings1945/page/n27 The Cleveland Museum of Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art Handbook. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1958. page number: Mentioned and Reproduced: cat. no. 475 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1958/page/n87 The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1966. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1966. page number: Reproduced: p. 160 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1966/page/n184 The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1969. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1969. page number: Reproduced: p. 160 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1969/page/n184 The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1978. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1978. page number: Reproduced: p. 195 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1978/page/n215 The Cleveland Museum of Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art Catalogue of Paintings, Part 3: European Paintings of the 16th, 17th, and 18th Centuries. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1982. page number: Reproduced: p. 198; Mentioned: p. 199 url: --- IMAGES web: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1942.642/1942.642_web.jpg print: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1942.642/1942.642_print.jpg full: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1942.642/1942.642_full.tif