Warren Hastings
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© National Portrait Gallery, London
Mid-Georgian Portraits Catalogue
Warren Hastings
by Sir Thomas Lawrence
1786
12 1/2 in. x 10 1/2 in. (318 mm x 267 mm) oval
NPG 3823
Inscriptionback to top
Originally inscribed verso in the artist’s hand: Be pleas’d to keep/this from the damp & from/the Sun TLawrence Pinxt/1786 (this sheet is now separately preserved).
This portraitback to top
Drawn at Bath, where the young Lawrence was living 1780-87, and sold in 1853 as a companion piece to Lawrence’s portrait of Sir Elijah Impey, NPG 821.
Referenceback to top
Garlick 1964
K. Garlick, ‘A Catalogue of the paintings, drawings and pastels of Sir Thomas Lawrence’, Wal. Soc., XXXIX, 1964.
Knapp 1951
Sir Arthur Knapp, A Catalogue of the known Portraits of Warren Hastings, [1951] type-script NPG [a revision of his catalogue in A. M. Davies, Warren Hasings, 1935, p 2, no.2.
Provenanceback to top
Descended from the sitter; Daylesford House sale, Farebrother, Clark & Lye, 22-27 August 1853, lot 820, bought Sir Thomas Phillips;1 by descent to his grandson T. F. Fenwick (d. 1938);2 bought in Cheltenham 1952 by Mrs F. Dodgson Wilkinson, from whom purchased 1952.
1 A printed label and an ink inscription verso identify this purchase.
2 A MS label verso reads: On no account is the paper on the back of this picture to be removed/T. F. Fenwick.
Exhibitionsback to top
'Earls Court 1895, lent by an art dealer'.1
1 Sir Arthur Knapp, A Catalogue of the known Portraits of Warren Hastings, 1951, p 17.
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