Sir Joseph Banks, Bt
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Mid-Georgian Portraits Catalogue
Sir Joseph Banks, Bt
by Sir Thomas Lawrence
circa 1795
9 3/4 in. x 7 7/8 in. (247 mm x 200 mm)
NPG 853
This portraitback to top
Previously dated c.1806, to agree with the portrait Lawrence painted for the Royal Society, but NPG 853 shows a younger man and it probably shows Banks soon after he was made KB in 1795.
Referenceback to top
Garlick 1964
K. Garlick, ‘A Catalogue of the paintings, drawings and pastels of Sir Thomas Lawrence’, Walpole Society, XXXIX, 1964, p 213 (as probably c.1806).
Garlick 1989
K. Garlick, Sir Thomas Lawrence: a complete catalogue of the oil paintings, 1989, p 143.
Provenanceback to top
Probably Lysons sale, Bruton, Knowles & Co, Gloucester, 21 April 1887, lot 321 (‘pencil sketch’), bought Colnaghi,1 from whom purchased 1891.
1 Martin Colnaghi told Scharf: ‘I purchased the Drawing of Sir Joseph Banks at a Sale in Cheltenham & with it a very beautiful Drawing by Lawrence of Mrs Siddons’ (11 December 1890; NPG archive).
Exhibitionsback to top
Cook's Voyage, Plymouth, 1968; Captain Cook, Sydney, 1970; Matthew Flinders, Museum of Lincolnshire Life, 1974; The Garden, Victoria and Albert Museum, 1979; Haydn, Eisensstadt, 1982 (624); Lawrence, New Haven, Fort Worth, Richmond, 1993 (42).
This extended catalogue entry is from the out-of-print National Portrait Gallery collection catalogue: John Ingamells, National Portrait Gallery: Mid-Georgian Portraits 1760-1790, National Portrait Gallery, 2004, 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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