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TitleSitters: Maclachlan to Young, Unidentified Sitters and Subject Pictures
Date[c 1950s-2000s]
LevelFile
Extent1 file
DescriptionContains correspondence and research relating to George Henry Harlow's portrait paintings of the following sitters:

- Mrs Maclachlan (wife of John Maclachlan of Dumfries)
- Sir Alexander Mackenzie Bt. (d. 1835)
- William Lort Mansel, Bishop of Bristol (1753-1820)
- Charles Mathews (1776-1835)
- Miss Maye of Harley, Staffs.
- Hon. Robert Meade (1772-1852)
- Lord Melbourne [William Lamb]
- Sir William Fowle Middleton, Bt.
- Mrs Montague Oxendon Middleton
- Isaac Milner ('The Very Rev. Dean of Carlisle, President of Queen's College Cambridge')
- Joseph Nollekens
- J. Northcote
- 'Mrs Norton holding her young child'
- Mrs Orby-Hunter
- Miss Panter
- Miss Parte
- Miss Parke
- William Pearce (estate agent to George III)
- Mrs Pearce and daughter
- Miss C [Caroline Goldsworthy] Pearce, later Mrs Massingberd [married Algernon Langton Massingberd] f Gunby, Lincs.
- Miss Emma Pearce, later Hon. Lady Dymoke of Scrivesby Court, Lincs.
- Four daughters of Mr and Mrs William Pearce (in white dresses with a dog in a landscape)
- Sir Robert Ker Porter (1777-1842, painter and traveller)
- 'A frame containing four portraits viz. Sir Robert Ker Porter, Miss Porter, Miss E. Thomas and a gentleman in the character of Henry the Fifth'
- A lady of the Provost family
- Elizabeth Reynolds (wife of Joshua Reynolds)
- Mrs Ricketts (daughter of General Loftus, sometime Lieutenant of the Tower of London)
- Hon. Anne Rodney
- The Hon. Misses Rodney
- Jane Porter (1776-1856, novelist)
- Master Robertson
- John Rollo
- Mrs Rolls
- 'Portraits of the children of J. Rolls, Esq.'
- Two children of J. Rolls
- Mary Runscombe (daughter of John S. Runscombe of Colne, Lancs.)
- Mrs Dudley Ryder (nee Naesmith)
- Lady Hannah Charlotte Scott of Belford
- The misses Sharpe
- Master Sherbourne
- Mrs [Sarah] Siddons as Lady Macbeth (Act 1 Scene 5)
- Mrs Siddons as Lady Macbeth walking in her sleep
- Mrs Siddons as Queen Katherine (Henry VIII, Act 2 Scene 4)
- Mrs Siddons seated
- Mrs Siddons
- Mrs Siddons as a Pilgrim
- Mrs Henry Siddons
- John Sinclair (1791-1857, vocalist)
- Hon. Mrs Singleton
- Isaac Solly
- Master Stanhope, son of Lady Mary Fitzjohn
- Thomas Stothard
- 'Hon. Mary Stratford'
- Mrs Sumner and Miss Lydia Montgomery
- HRH The Duke of Sussex
- Rev Joseph Thomas
- The misses Thornhill, daughters of T. Thornhill of Norbury Booths Hall, Knutsford
- 'Dr Thornton', Robert John Thornton, MD (1768-1837, botanist)
- Mr Tomkison
- Miss Tomkison
- 'Mr Tunerelli'
- Richard Twiss, FRS (1747-1821, traveller)
- Mrs Ventry (see also Elizabeth Hilliard)
- Miss Vowell
- Mr E. Walpole
- 'A young lady perhaps Miss Belinda Way'
- Mrs Weddell and children
- Mrs Richard Wellesley
- Duke of Wellington
- Benjamin West
- 4th Earl of Wicklow
- Cecil Frances, Countess of Wicklow (1795-1860, daughter of the 1st Marquess Abercorn)
- Sir David Wilkie
- Commodore Sir J. L. [James Lucas] Yeo, KCB
- Charles Mayne Young (1777-1856) (5 portraits; includes one as Rolla and one in costume)

Various unidentified sitters, including but not limited to:
- A lady
- Sketch of a lady
- A young lady
- Young lady
- A lady in a yellow dress
- Two girls in white dresses
- A gentleman
- A youth with a book
- 'A head from nature - painted by lamplight'
- A boy drinking
- A boy

Also includes the following subject pictures:
- 'A character from Shakespeare'
- Queen Elizabeth striking the Earl of Essex
- Entrance of Bolingbroke into London
- 'The Court for the trial of Queen Katherine. Queen: "Lord Cardinal, to you I speak." - Henry VIII'
- 'The Virtue of Faith. "And when the woman saw that she was not hid" etc - St Luke, Chap. VIII'
- The woman taken in adultery (copy from Reubens)
- The Proposal ("observe her eyes; the flattering talk's believed")
- Congratulations ('Nay, turn not those dewy eyes away, the tender heart is now reveal'd')
- Hubert and Arthur
- The presentation of the Cardinal's hat to Wolsey in Westminster Abbey
- A cardinal
- 'Sketch in colours, from a Picture by Paul Veronese at Venice'
- 'Highly finished study, in colours, after a Picture at Venice; the Doge receiving the Fisherman who had found the ring, in colours'
- 'A Concert' (in colour, after Bonifazio)
- 'A study in oils of a female figure flying' - on paper
- 'Sketch for Wolsey at Rome'
- Copy of the Transfiguration
- The Age of Innocence
- A Welsh peasant girl

Recurring correspondence regarding the same sitter has only been listed once, with further details provided where necessary. This research was collected and created by art historian Kenneth Garlick over the course of his career.
LanguageEnglish
Access_StatusAccess restrictions may apply. Refer to issue desk.
Persons
CodePersonNameDates
DS/UK/56Wilkie; David (1785-1841); Sir; Artist1785-1841
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