Live Auction 5660Old Master and British Paintings
Sir Thomas Lawrence, P.R.A. (Bristol 1769-1830 London)
Lot 142

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

Portrait of Rebecca, Lady Simeon (d.1830), half-length, in a white dress and fur wrap, a wooded landscape beyond

Closed30 October 2014

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GBP 17,500

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Sir Thomas Lawrence, P.R.A. (Bristol 1769-1830 London)
Portrait of Rebecca, Lady Simeon (d.1830), half-length, in a white dress and fur wrap, a wooded landscape beyond
oil on canvas
30 ¼ x 25 ¼ in. (77 x 64 cm.)

B descent in the sitter's family to Laura, Lady Simeon; Christie's, London, 4 July 1919, lot 35 (2,400gns. to the following);
with Thos. Agnew and Sons, London, 1921, from whom acquired by
Horace Trumbauer, New York.
with French & Co., New York, 1955.
Anonymous sale; Sotheby's, London, 24 November 1999, lot 67 (£32,200).

Specialist note

The sitter was the eldest daughter of John Cornwall of Hendon House, Middlesex. On 14 June 1783 she married Sir John Simeon Bt. (1756-1824) of Walliscot, Oxfordshire.