Museum number
2016.1
Object
Framed oil painting: unfinished portrait of Arthur Atherley by Thomas Lawrence, oil on canvas, 1791
Description
Arthur Atherley(1772-1844) was an MP for Southampton four times. He was educated at Eton and in 1791 this was where his painting was painted by Lawrence. The full length portrait is at the LA county Museum of Art.
On display?
Yes

Further description

Simple name
painting
Dimensions
Canvas size: 62.2cm (h) x 50.8cm (w)
framed: 8.5cm (d) x 83cm (h) x 73cm (w)
NEW ACQUISITION Arthur Atherley (1772–1844) Sir Thomas Lawrence (1769–1830) Oil on canvas, 1791 Thomas Lawrence lived and worked in Bath during his teens, from 1780 to 1787. Five years after leaving Bath, he exhibited a three-quarter-length portrait of Arthur Atherley at the Royal Academy. This is Lawrence’s original sketch for that portrait (now in the Los Angeles County Museum), one of the artist’s best-known and most striking works. The artist was just three years older than his nineteen-year-old sitter, who had recently left Eton College. 2016.1 Acquired with support from the Art Fund, the Heritage Lottery Fund, and ACE/V&A Purchase Grant Fund and donations from Friends, Patrons and visitors of the Holburne, 2016

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