J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours

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Funeral of Sir Thomas Lawrence: A Sketch from Memory exhibited 1830

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This section comprises a single watercolour, recalling the funeral of Sir Thomas Lawrence (1769–1830). He had been President of the Royal Academy and a leading portrait painter with a European reputation; he had also been Turner’s friend and loyal advocate. This elegiac subject was the last watercolour Turner exhibited at the Academy. Perhaps as a token of his deep regard for both the institution and its late President, it subsequently remained in his possession.
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Turner Bequest CCLXIII 344
This section comprises a single watercolour, recalling the funeral of Sir Thomas Lawrence (1769–1830). He had been President of the Royal Academy and a leading portrait painter with a European reputation; he had also been Turner’s friend and loyal advocate. This elegiac subject was the last watercolour Turner exhibited at the Academy. Perhaps as a token of his deep regard for both the institution and its late President, it subsequently remained in his possession.

Nicola Moorby
May 2011

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Nicola Moorby, ‘Funeral of Sir Thomas Lawrence: A Sketch from Memory exhibited 1830’, May 2011, in David Blayney Brown (ed.), J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours, Tate Research Publication, December 2012, https://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/jmw-turner/funeral-of-sir-thomas-lawrence-a-sketch-from-memory-r1139998, accessed 19 March 2024.