Reference code
LAW/1/13
Title
[copy] Thomas Lawrence to [Lucy Lawrence]
Date
1788
Level
Item
Extent & medium
1 piece
Content Description
Has offered his picture to the Earl of Gainsborough as Mr. Brummell had not sent an answer, Lady Middleton said the Earl was keen; visit from
Prince Hoare, who saw his newly started self-portrait in oils and thinks he could, with practice, be a great painter, "excepting
Sir Joshua, for the painting of a head, I would risk my reputation with any painter in London"; he has seen and expresses great admiration for
James Barry.
Bibliography
Published, Letter-Bag, Layard, 1906, p.7.