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Portrait of Sir Samuel Shepherd
Thomas Lawrence (British, 1769–1830)
Title
Portrait of Sir Samuel Shepherd
Artist
Thomas Lawrence (British, 1769–1830)
Date
1796
Medium
oil on canvas
Dimensions
50 1/2 × 40 1/2 in. (128.3 × 102.9 cm)
Classification
Painting
Credit Line
Gift, through purchase, of Helen and Ted Kolderie
Object Number
2005.28
On View
On view
Provenance
By descent in the Shepherd family to Mrs. M. E. Braudreth, Moorehouse, Westerham, Kent;
By descent from Mrs. M. E. Braudreth to Professor Alan Clutton-Brock, Chastleton House;
Purchased at his sale, Sotheby’s, London July 15, 1964, lot 125, by Newhouse Galleries, New York;
Purchased from Newhouse Galleries by a private collector, New York, 1964–1988;
Purchased at sale from a private collection, Sotheby’s, New York, June 3, 1988, lot 104, by a private collector, 1988–1994;
Purchased at sale from a private collection, Sotheby’s, London, April 13, 1994, lot 75, by a private collector, 1994–2005;
Consigned from a private collection to Lawrence Steigrad Fine Arts, New York, by 2005;
Purchased from Lawrence Steigrad Fine Arts by Joslyn Art Museum, Omaha, Nebraska, 2005.
Exhibition History
Royal Academy, London, 1796, no. 183.
Titian to Monet: European Paintings from Joslyn Art Museum, Taubman Museum of Art, Roanoke, VA, October 14, 2022–January 8, 2023; Rembrandt to Monet: 500 Years of European Painting from Joslyn Art Museum, Philbrook Museum of Art, Tulsa, OK, February 22–May 28, 2023.
Published References
Ronald Sutherland Gower, F.S.A., Sir Thomas Lawrence (London: Goupil & Co., 1900), 158.
Walter Armstrong, Lawrence (London: Meuthen & Co., 1913), 162.
Kenneth Garlick, Sir Thomas Lawrence (London: Routledge. & Kegan Paul, 1954), 57.
Kenneth Garlick, “A Catalogue of the Paintings, Drawings and Pastels of Sir Thomas Lawrence,” The Walpole Society 39 (1964): 174.
Kenneth Garlick, Sir Thomas Lawrence (New York: New York University Press, 1989), 263, (repro.).
Peggy Stone and Lawrence Steigrad, Portrait and Other Recent Acquisitions (New York: Lawrence Steigrad Fine Arts, 2007), n.p., (repro.).
Taylor J. Acosta, European Paintings and Sculpture from Joslyn Art Museum (Omaha: Joslyn Art Museum, 2020), 26, 122–23, (repro.).