Charlotte Dee, Mrs Charles Edmund Nugent (1756-1813), as Mrs Johnstone
Sir Thomas Lawrence, PRA (Bristol 1769 – London 1830)
Category
Art / Oil paintings
Date
1789
Materials
Oil on canvas
Measurements
749 x 622 mm (29 1/2 x 24 1/2 in)
Place of origin
England
Order this imageCollection
Kingston Lacy Estate, Dorset
NT 1257071
Summary
Oil painting on canvas, Charlotte Dee, Mrs Charles Edmund Nugent (1756-1813), as Mrs Johnstone, an unfinished work by Sir Thomas Lawrence PRA (Bristol 1769 – London 1830), 1789. A half-length portrait, facing, head inclined to the left, wearing a black and white dress and powdered hair. Garlick, in the Walpole Society, writes: 'According to family tradition [actually by a letter from a Mrs Carter to the sitter, recorded by Albert Bankes's manuscript, Parliamentary History, fol.20] painted in 1789, when the sitter was Mrs Johnstone'. She married secondly, in 1790, Capatin Charles Edmuund Nugent, who beacmeAdmiral of the Fleet in 1833 and was knighted in 1834. The portrait was left unfinished.
Provenance
Left unfinished by the artist and still in his studio at his death; delivered by his executors to the sitter's daughter, Georgina Nugent, the wife of the Rt. Hon. George Bankes; bequeathed by Ralph Bankes, 1981.
Marks and inscriptions
LADY NUGENT / SIR T. LAWRENCE P.R.A. (painted in black on fixed gilt label, centred under image)
Makers and roles
Sir Thomas Lawrence, PRA (Bristol 1769 – London 1830), artist
References
Garlick 1954 Kenneth Garlick, Sir Thomas Lawrence, London, 1954, pp.44, 67,68: Garlick 1962-64 Kenneth Garlick, A Catalogue of the Paintings, Drawings and Pastels of Sir Thomas Lawrence, Walpole Society, Vol. xxxix, 1962-64, pp.113-4, 268, appendix iv, no.301 Garlick 1989 Kenneth Garlick, Sir Thomas Lawrence. A complete catalogue of the oil paintings, Oxford, 1989, 443
