| Description | Kenneth Garlick was an art historian and Keeper of Western Art at the Ashmolean Museum from 1968 to 1984. During the second half of the twentieth century, Garlick carried out major, pioneering scholarship on Sir Thomas Lawrence PRA (1769-1830). Over a period of roughly 50 years, Garlick received and responded to correspondence from other researchers and from the public regarding Thomas Lawrence's portraits.
These folders contain the correspondence to Garlick concerning works by Lawrence, copies of Garlick's replies, and notes made by Garlick on the portraits. The correspondence is arranged into the following categories: Paintings (61 folders); Drawings (12 folders); works attributed to Lawrence (6 folders); and pastels (3 folders). Within each category the notes and correspondence are organised alphabetically by sitter surname.
Garlick's bequest to the National Portrait Gallery also included 16 boxes of photographs of Thomas Lawrence paintings, which were filed into the Artist Boxes in the Public Study Room under Sir Thomas Lawrence (Kenneth Garlick Archive). Any correspondence attached to these photographs has been transferred into the archive. |