John Laird Mair Lawrence, 1st Baron Lawrence

Inscriptionback to top

Signed and dated (bottom right): G.F.W./1862

This portraitback to top

There are three replicas of this portrait; one in the collection of David Loshak; another in the collection of Mrs M. Chapman, dated 1879, exhibited The Works of G. F. Watts, Winter Exhibition, New Gallery, 1896-7; and the third at Calcutta. Watts used the NPG portrait for the face of the Earl of Salisbury in the fresco, 'Justice, a Hemicycle of Lawgivers', in the New Hall of Lincoln's Inn (1853-9). A copy by W. M. Loudan is in the East India and Sports Club, London.

Referenceback to top

Jessen 1901
J. Jessen, George Frederick Watts (Berlin, 1901), p 67.

Macmillan 1903
H. Macmillan, Life-Work of George Frederick Watts, RA (1903), p 84.

Phythian 1906
J. E. Phythian, George Frederick Watts (1906), p 164.

Sketchley 1904
R. E. D. Sketchley, Watts (1904), pp 75-8.

Watts
'Catalogue of Works by G. F. Watts', compiled by Mrs M. S. Watts (MS, Watts Gallery, Compton), II, 88.

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Dark flesh tones, blue(?) eyes, greyish hair and moustache. Dressed in a white shirt and indistinguishable brown coat. Green pillar behind left. Rest of background, dark greyish-blue sky.

Provenanceback to top

The artist, presented by him, 1895.

Exhibitionsback to top

Paris, 1878; Collection of the Works of G. F. Watts, Grosvenor Gallery, 1882 (59); Paintings by G. F. Watts, Metropolitan Museum, New York, 1884-5 (92); Art Exhibition at the Inauguration of the Museum and Art Gallery, Birmingham, 1885-6 (158); Royal Jubilee Exhibition, Manchester, 1887, 'Fine Art Section' (456); Rugby, 1888; VE, 1892 (23); Munich, 1893; Oldham, 1894; George Frederick Watts (1906), p 164; 'Catalogue of Works by G. F. Watts', compiled by Mrs M. S. Watts (MS, Watts Gallery, Compton), II, 88.


This extended catalogue entry is from the out-of-print National Portrait Gallery collection catalogue: Richard Ormond, Early Victorian Portraits, Her Majesty's Stationery Office, 1973, and is as published then. For the most up-to-date details on individual Collection works, we recommend reading the information provided in the Search the Collection results on this website in parallel with this text.

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