id: 136682 accession number: 1961.220 share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1961.220 updated: 2024-03-26 01:58:49.812000 Portrait of Catherine Grey, Lady Manners, 1794. Thomas Lawrence (British, 1769–1830). Oil on canvas; framed: 280.5 x 185 x 9 cm (110 7/16 x 72 13/16 x 3 9/16 in.); unframed: 255.3 x 158 cm (100 1/2 x 62 3/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Bequest of John D. Rockefeller, Jr. 1961.220 title: Portrait of Catherine Grey, Lady Manners title in original language: series: series in original language: creation date: 1794 creation date earliest: 1794 creation date latest: 1794 current location: 203A British Painting and Decorative Arts creditline: Bequest of John D. Rockefeller, Jr. copyright: --- culture: England, 18th century technique: oil on canvas department: European Painting and Sculpture collection: P - British before 1800 type: Painting find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS * Thomas Lawrence (British, 1769–1830) - artist --- measurements: Framed: 280.5 x 185 x 9 cm (110 7/16 x 72 13/16 x 3 9/16 in.); Unframed: 255.3 x 158 cm (100 1/2 x 62 3/16 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS title: Year in Review (1961) opening date: 1961-11-01T05:00:00 Year in Review (1961). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (November 1-26, 1961). title: Style, Truth and the Portrait opening date: 1963-10-01T04:00:00 Style, Truth and the Portrait. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (October 1-November 19, 1963). title: Juxtapositions opening date: 1965-09-11T04:00:00 Juxtapositions. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (September 11-October 10, 1965). title: Portraiture: The Image of the Individual opening date: 1983-11-22T05:00:00 Portraiture: The Image of the Individual. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (November 22, 1983-January 22, 1984). title: The Swagger Portrait opening date: 1992-10-14T04:00:00 The Swagger Portrait. Tate, London SW1P 4RG (organizer) (October 14, 1992-January 10, 1993). title: Masterpieces of European Painting from the Cleveland Museum of Art opening date: 2007-03-29T00:00:00 Masterpieces of European Painting from the Cleveland Museum of Art. Maltz Museum of Jewish Heritage, Beachwood, OH (March 29-July 8, 2007). title: Thomas Lawrence: Regency, Power & Brilliance opening date: 2011-02-24T00:00:00 Thomas Lawrence: Regency, Power & Brilliance. Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT (organizer) (February 24-June 5, 2011). 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 * {'description': 'Royal Academy, London, United Kingdom (1794).', 'opening_date': '1794-01-01T04:56:02Z'} * {'description': 'Woman and Child in Art. National Gallery, London, United Kingdom (1913-1914).', 'opening_date': '1913-01-01T00:00:00'} --- PROVENANCE property of the artist, Sir Thomas Lawrence [1769-1830] date: 1794-1830 footnotes: citations: (Christie's, London Sir Thomas Lawrence sale, June 18, 1831, no. 147, purchased by Samuel Woodburn) date: 1831 footnotes: citations: Samuel Woodburn; sold to Frederick John Fifth Baron Monson date: 1831-? footnotes: citations: Frederick John, Fifth Baron Monson [died 1841], and his heirs, Gatton Park, Surrey; sold at Christie's, London date: ?-1888 footnotes: *
correspondence among the Monson papers now deposited in the Lincoln County archives
citations: (Christie's, London, May 12, 1888, no. 21, sold to Davis) date: footnotes: citations: Davis date: 1888 footnotes: citations: William, Fifth Earl of Carysfort date: 1888-? footnotes: citations: Lady Carysfort; by descent to her nephew Douglas James Proby date: footnotes: citations: Colonel Douglas James Proby, Elton Hall, Huntingdonshire date: footnotes: citations: (Duveen Brothers) date: 1919-? footnotes: citations: Jules S. Bach, New York date: 1924-? footnotes: citations: John D. Rockefeller, Jr. [1874-1960]; by bequest to the Cleveland Museum of Art date: ?-1960 footnotes: citations: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH date: 1961- footnotes: citations: --- fun fact: digital description: wall description: --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS Williams, John. Memoirs of the Royal Academicians; Being an Attempt to Improve the National Taste. [London]: H.D. Symonds, P. M'Queen, and T. Bellamy, 1796. page number: Mentioned:P. 28, no. 173 url: https://hdl.handle.net/2027/uc2.ark:/13960/t8qc09z12 Redford, George. Art Sales. A History of Sales of Pictures and Other Works of Art. With Notices of the Collections Sold, Names of Owners, Titles of Pictures, Prices and Purchasers, Arranged Under the Artists of the Different Schools in Order of Date. Including the Purchases and Prices of Pictures for the National Gallery. London, United Kindgom: Bradbury, Agnew, & Co., Printers, the "Whitefriars" Press, 1888. page number: Reproduced: p. 454, vol. I url: Gower, Ronald Sutherland, and Algernon Graves. Sir Thomas Lawrence, With a Catalogue of the Artist's Exhibited and Engraved Works. London, United Kingdom: Goupil, J. Boussod, Manzi, Joyant, successors, 1900. page number: Reproduced: p. 454 url: Graves, Algernon. The Royal Academy of Arts; A Complete Dictionary of Contributors and Their Work from Its Foundation in 1769 to 1904. London, United Kingdom: H. Graves and Co, 1905. page number: Reproduced: vol. 3 url: Armstrong, Walter. Lawrence. New York,, NY: C. Scribner's, 1913. page number: Mentioned: p. 129; Reproduced: p. 150, pl. XIV url: Graves, Algernon. Art Sales from Early in the Eighteenth Century to Early in the Twentieth Century (Mostly Old Master and Early English Pictures). London: A. Graves, 1918. page number: Mentioned: Vol. II, P. 128 url: Farington, Joseph, and James Greig. The Farington Diary. London, United Kingdom: Hutchinson, 1922. page number: Mentioned: p. 44 url: Proby, Douglas James, Tancred Borenius, James Vaughan Hodgson, and Granville Proby. A Catalogue of the Pictures at Elton Hall in Huntingdonshire, in the Possession of Colonel Douglas James Proby. London, United Kingdom: Medici Society, 1924. page number: Reproduced: p. 117 url: Garlick, Kenneth. Sir Thomas Lawrence. London, United Kingdom : Routledge & Paul,1954. page number: Reproduced: p. 88, pl. 32 url: Saarinen, Aline B. The Proud Possessors: The Lives, Times, and Tastes of Some Adventurous American Art Collectors. New York, NY: Random House, 1958. page number: Reproduced: p. 349 url: Cleveland Museum of Art, “Recent Acquisition Press Release,” October 11, 1961, Cleveland Museum of Art Archives. page number: url: https://archive.org/details/cmapr0811 Cleveland Museum of Art, “The Portrait of the Countess of Dysart as Juno,” October 26, 1961, Cleveland Museum of Art Archives. page number: url: https://archive.org/details/cmapr0823 Garlick, Kenneth. "A Catalogue of the Paintings, Drawings, and Pastels of Sir Thomas Lawrence." The Walpole Society, XXXIX (1962-64) page number: Reproduced: p. 138 url: “Lady Louisa Manners, Later Countess of Dysart, as Juno.” Gazette Des Beaux Arts, February 1962, sup36. page number: Reproduced: P. 36 url: 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: Mentioned: p. 200; Reproduced: p. 201 url: "1992 Annual Report." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 80, no. 6 (1993): 215-95. page number: Mentioned: p. 247 url: https://www.jstor.org/stable/25161418 Uerlings, Herbert, Karl Hölz, and Viktoria Schmidt-Linsenhoff. Das Subjekt und die Anderen: Interkulturalität und Geschlechterdifferenz vom 18. Jahrhundert bis zur Gegenwart. Berlin, Germany: Erich Schmidt, 2001. page number: Reproduced: p. 116, fig. 6 url: Rosenthal, Angela. 2004. “Visceral Culture: Blushing and the Legibility of Whiteness in Eighteenth-Century British Portraiture.” Art History 27 (4): 563–92. page number: Mentioned: P. 576-578; reproduced: P. 577 url: Badea-Păun, Gabriel. The Society Portrait: From David to Warhol. New York, NY: Vendome Press, 2007. page number: Mentioned: p. 56-58 url: Bindman, David, Tim Ayers, and Chris Stephens. The History of British Art. New Haven, CT: Yale Center for British Art, 2008. page number: Reproduced: p. 108, fig. 61 url: Palmer, Caroline. "Brazen Cheek: Face-Painters in Late Eighteenth-Century England." Oxford Art Journal 31, no. 2 (2008): 197-213. page number: Mentioned: P. 209; reproduced: P. 211 url: http://www.jstor.org/stable/20108020. Albinson, A. Cassandra, Peter Funnell, and Lucy Peltz. Thomas Lawrence: Regency Power & Brilliance. New Haven, CT: Yale Center for British Art, 2010. page number: Mentioned: p. 118-119 url: Cleveland Museum of Art. The CMA Companion: A Guide to the Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2014. page number: Mentioned and reproduced: P. 194-195 url: Montgomery, Janelle. "Every Picture Tells a Story: A Family Chronicle in George Romney's Lady Mary Every." Transactions of the Romney Society 21, (2016).
 page number: Mentioned: p. 4-11; Reproduced: p. 9, fig. 5 url: Day, C.A., et. al. "Thomas Lawrence's Consumptive Chic: Reinterpretting Lady Manners Hectic Flush in 1794." Eighteenth-Century Studies 49, no. 4 (Summer 2016). page number: Mentioned: 455-474; Reproduced: p. 456, fig. 1 url: --- IMAGES web: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1961.220/1961.220_web.jpg print: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1961.220/1961.220_print.jpg full: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1961.220/1961.220_full.tif