Liverpool, Walmer Castle, to Sir Thos. Lawrence

RA Collection: Archive

Reference code

LAW/4/260

Title

Liverpool, Walmer Castle, to Sir Thos. Lawrence

Date

11 Nov 1824

Level

Item

Extent & medium

1 piece

Content Description

He thanks Lawrence for the copy of his address; he was struck with Lawrence's claim that Sir Joshua Reynolds's Mrs. Siddons as the tragic muse as the best female portrait in the world, he completely agrees; he asks why Lawrence did not include Copley among the great historical painters, but he is biased, as he owns The Death of Lord Chatham, which he prefers over West's Death of General Wolfe.

Bibliography

Partly published in Letter-Bag, Layard, 1906, p.187.