Head of a Girl

Artist Sir Thomas Lawrence British, 1769–1830

Datelate 18th–early 19th century

MediumOil on canvas

DimensionsDiam.: 18 in. (45.7 cm)
Frame: 23 3/4 x 23 3/4 x 3 1/4 in. (60.3 x 60.3 x 8.3 cm)

ClassificationsPaintings

Credit LineGift of Mr. and Mrs. Gordon Hanes

Object numberG.79.6.14

On View

Not on view

ProvenanceVente, MD, Galerie Charpentier, Paris, December 9, 1952 (19) and again December 9, 1961; property of a lady, sale, Sotheby’s, July 15,1964 (109); Thomas Agnew & Sons, London; gift of Mr. and Mrs. Gordon Hanes, 1979.Published References"La Chronique des Arts," (Supplement to the Gazette des Beaux-Arts) (March 1981), no. 207, illus. 38.

Kenneth Garlick, Sir Thomas Lawrence (Oxford: Phaidon Press Ltd., 1989), cat. no. 885, illus.
Exhibition HistoryHickory, NC, The Hickory Museum of Art, “Beyond Likeness: Contemporary Considerations of the Portrait,” November 1-December 31, 1997; Wilmington, NC, St. John’s Museum of Art, April 30-June 28, 1998; Fayetteville, NC, Fayetteville Museum of Art, July 11-August 30, 1998; Asheville, NC, Asheville Art Museum, September 17, 1998-January 2, 1999; Greenville, NC, Greenville Museum of Art, January 14-February 28, 1999, brochure. (Outreach exhibition)

Raleigh, NC, North Carolina Museum of Art, “History and Mystery: Discoveries in the NCMA British Collection,” August 6, 2016–June 25, 2017. Object Rights Statement

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