About the Artwork
Ewan Law, M.P.
between 1788 and 1795
Thomas Lawrence
1769-1830
English
Unknown
Oil on canvas
Unframed: 30 × 25 inches (76.2 × 63.5 cm) Framed: 39 1/2 × 34 5/8 × 3 inches (100.3 × 87.9 × 7.6 cm)
Paintings
European Painting
Gift of Mrs. William E. Scripps
54.457
This work is in the public domain.
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Provenance
collection of Ralston Melville (Cornwall, England). 1928, collection of S. M. Carper (New York, New York, USA)
collection of Mrs. William E. Scripps (Grosse Pointe, Michigan, USA)
1954-present, gift to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
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Williams, D. E. The Life and Correspondance of Sir Thomas Lawrence, KT, 2 vols. London, 1831, vol. 1, p. 128 [portraits painted ca. 1788-1795].
Gower, Lord Ronald Sutherland. Sir Thomas Lawrence, P.R.A. compiled by Algernon Graves. London: Goupil & Co, 1900, p. 142 [see remarks].
Clark, A. Greenleaf and Law in the Federal City. Washington D.C., 1901, pp. 220-221.
Armstrong, Sir W. Lawrence. London, 1913, p. 144, [as painted about 1790].
Garlick, K. Sir Thomas Lawrence. London, 1954, p. 45, appendix I, no. 42, [as painted before 1795 with an untraced provenance].
Grigaut, Paul L. "A Rediscovered Portrait by Sir Thomas Lawrence." Bulletin of the DIA 34, no. 3 (1954-55): p. 69, (repr.).
Grigaut, Paul L. "A Rediscovered Portrait by Sir Thomas Lawrence," Art Quarterly, vol. 18, no. 3 (Autumn 1955): pp. 322, 324.
Sir Thomas Lawrence as Painter and Collector. Exh. cat., Columbus Gallery of Fine Arts. Columbus, 1955, no. 20.
British Paintings. Exh. cat., Birmingham Museum of Fine Arts. Birmingham, 1957.
Masterpieces of the Mid-West. Exh. cat., Flint Institute of Arts. Flint, 1961, no. 23.
Garlick, K. Sir Thomas Lawrence: A complete catalogue of the oil paintings. New York, 1989, p. 220, no. 467, (repr.).
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Thomas Lawrence, Ewan Law, M.P., between 1788 and 1795, oil on canvas. Detroit Institute of Arts, Gift of Mrs. William E. Scripps, 54.457.
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