Lowell Libson & Jonny Yarker Ltd

  • Black, red chalk and white chalk on prepared canvas
  • 26 × 21 inches · 660 × 533 mm
  • c. 1825

    Engraved: Frederick Christian Lewis, Twenty Imitations of Sir Thos. Lawrence's finest Drawings of Sovereigns, Statesmen, Ladies &c., London, 1839, no.16, ‘Mrs Isabella Fairlie’
     

Collections

  • Commissioned by John Fairlie (1799-1885) of Cheveley Park;
  • And by descent, 1936;
  • Fairlie sale, Christie’s, London, 1936;
  • Mary Angela Fairlie, purchased at the above;
  • Roylance Chichester Fairlie (1898-1987), brother of the above; 
  • And by descent to 2019;
  • Heritage Auctions, Dallas, 6th December 2019, lot.68077

Literature

  • Kenneth Garlick, A Catalogue of the Paintings, Drawings and Pastels of Sir Thomas Lawrence, Walpole Society, 1964, Vol. XXIX, p. 226 (where incorrectly identified as Louisa Fairlie).

Private collection, USA