STUDIO OF SIR THOMAS LAWRENCE, P.R.A. | PORTRAIT OF ELIZABETH GODFREY (1748-1810), HALF-LENGTH, WEARING A WHITE DRESS

By descent from the sitters (recorded in the collects ion of Major E.A. Godfrey, Houghton, Huntingdon, in 1964; see Garlick 1964);

Until anonymously offered ('The Property of a Gentleman'), London, Christie's, 17 July 1992, lot 12, where unsold and acquired post-sale by the present owner.

Sandwich Town Council, Kent, on loan 2010-13.

K. Garlick, Sir Thomas Lawrence, London 1954, Appendix II, p. 70, no. 61;

K. Garlick, 'A Catalogue of the paintings, drawings and pastels of Sir Thomas Lawrence', in The Walpole Society, vol. XXXIX, 1964, p. 90;

K. Garlick, Sir Thomas Lawrence. A complete catalogue of the oil paintings, Oxford 1989, p. 196, cat. no. 334.

Payment of £31-10s. is recorded for the portrait of Mrs Godfrey in the Coutt's list, annotated by Lawrence on 14 February 1806. Elizabeth was the daughter of John Fuller of Ash, who served as High Sheriff of Kent in 1802.