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JOSEPH LEE (BRITISH, 1780-1859) AFTER SIR THOMAS LAWRENCE, P.R.A. (BRITISH, 1769-1830)
Lot 157

JOSEPH LEE (BRITISH, 1780-1859) AFTER SIR THOMAS LAWRENCE, P.R.A. (BRITISH, 1769-1830)

Closed27 November 2013

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JOSEPH LEE (BRITISH, 1780-1859) AFTER SIR THOMAS LAWRENCE, P.R.A. (BRITISH, 1769-1830)
King George IV (1762-1830), when Prince Regent, in fur-collared blue coat with frogging, black stock, wearing the blue sash and breast-star of the Order of the Garter and the jewel of the Order of the Golden Fleece, seated on a red-upholstered chair; red curtain, pillar and sky background
signed 'J Lee' (lower right) and signed and inscribed on the counter-enamel 'His Majesty / George the 4th / Painted by Joseph Lee / ([...] Queen Charlotte [...] / from a Picture / by Sir Thos Lawrence / P.R.A. / New Road'
enamel on copper
rectangular, 3¾ x 3.1/8 in. (95 x 80 mm.), gilt-metal mount with spiral surmount

Specialist note

This miniature is after the original full-size portrait of King George IV by Sir Thomas Lawrence, P.R.A., now in the Wallace Collection (inv. no. P559). It was thought by Lawrence to be his finest portrait of George IV. The King gave it to his mistress, Lady Conyngham.
A rectangular enamel of George IV by Joseph Lee after Sir Thomas Lawrence, signed in full on the reverse, was sold Sotheby's, London, 15 July 1974, lot 30.
For a biographical note on the sitter, see lot 160.