Stewart, [?Milan], [Thomas Lawrence]

RA Collection: Archive

Reference code

LAW/2/130

Title

Stewart, [?Milan], [Thomas Lawrence]

Date

6 Mar 1816

Level

Item

Extent & medium

1 piece

Content Description

He discusses Lawrence's wish to paint the "autocrat"; he details a plan for Lawrence to St Petersburg via Vienna in order to paint the Emperor and Empress, Schwarzenberg and Metternich and young Napoleon; includes a bawdy reference to finding a wife.

Bibliography

Published in Letter-Bag, Layard, 1906, p.100.