Live Auction 5688Old Master & Early British Drawings and Watercolours
Sir Thomas Lawrence, P.R.A. (Bristol 1769-1830 London)
Lot 135 VARIOUS PROPERTIES

Sir Thomas Lawrence, P.R.A. (Bristol 1769-1830 London)

Portrait of Charles Malton (b. 1788), three-quarter-length, as a child

Closed3 July 2012

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GBP 21,250

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Sir Thomas Lawrence, P.R.A. (Bristol 1769-1830 London)
Portrait of Charles Malton (b. 1788), three-quarter-length, as a child
pencil and red and brown chalks
11 5/8 x 7 7/8 in. (29.5 x 19.5 cm.)

Thomas Malton Junior (1751-1804) and by descent to
Charles Malton.
E.M. Hodgkins; Christie's, London, 29 June 1917, lot 67 (160 gns unsold).
with Etienne Ader, Galerie Charpentier, Paris, 24 May 1955, no. 129.

Specialist note

Charles Malton was the second son of Thomas Malton, Jun. (1748-1804), topographical artist. He trained as an architect with Sir John Soane (1753-1837) from 1802-1809, but the relationship between the two men is recorded as fraught and there is no evidence that Charles ever practised architecture. Thomas Malton would have known Lawrence from Royal Academy exhibitions.

Executed in the 1790s, Lawrence has depicted the little boy with dishevelled clothing and hair, echoing Gainsborough's Cottage Door, (1780), while his face and gaze are reminiscent of Reynolds's Strawberry Girl (1773).