Description | Contains correspondence and research relating to George Henry Harlow's drawings (pencil, chalk, watercolour and/or pastel portraits) of the following sitters:
- Lady Acland and Mrs Losack - J. Aspland, Fellow of Pembroke College Cambridge - Emma and Frances Baker - Miss Sarah Barnard - Duchess of Beaufort and child - William Henry West Betty (1791-1874, child actor, 'the young Roscius') - W. Bristol [William Lort Mansel?], Master of Trinity College Cambridge - Lord Byron [George Gordon Byron] - Hon. Lydia Byron - 'Lady Jane Chambers' - Earl of Charleville - Margarita Cogni (friend of Byron) - John Cox - Miss Isabella Cox - Captain Edward Crofton (in uniform) - Lady Crofton - Mrs Henry Dashwood - William 7th Earl Denbigh, the Hon. Everard Fielding and the Hon. Henry Fielding (all when boys) - James, Lucy, Elizabeth and Mary Margaret - children of the Earl of Derby - R. W. [Robert William] Elliston - Two children of Major General Farran - William Godwin - The daughters of Lord Grosvenor - Sir Robert Hall, KCB - Mrs Harlow - Mrs Harlow - Miss Harlow - Self-portrait - B. R. [Benjamin Robert] Haydon - Mrs George Herbert - Mrs Inchbald - Miss Kent - Lady Anne Lindsay - Charles Matthews (1776-1835, comedy actor) - 'C [Charles] Matthews in character' - Northcote - Mrs Marie Pearce - Miss Mary Anne Pearce - Lord Pomfret - John Poole (author of the play 'Paul Pry') - Anna-Maria Porter - Jane Porter (1776-1850, novelist) - Frederic Reynolds (1764-1841, dramatist) - Miss Rodney - Mrs Rolls - Jessy Rolls - Master Rolls - Thomas Rowlandson (1756-1827) - 'Hon. Miss S.' - Mrs [Sarah] Siddons (5 drawings) - Cecilia Siddons - Horatio Smith (1779-1849) and James Smith (1775-1839) - Miss Maria Stainforth (afterwards Mrs Whitmore) and Miss Harriet Stainforth (afterwards Mrs Dealtry) - Lord James Stanley, Lady Elizabeth Stanley and Mary Margaret Stanley (children of the 12th Earl of Derby) - Miss Stephens - Thomas Stothard - 'Mrs W.T.' - 'Sir Thomas' Lady and her harp' - Sir David Wilkie - Frances Wynell-Mayow - Charles Mayne Young
Includes various unidentified sitters: - Boy in white dress - A young man (pencil) - A young man (black and red chalks) - A lady (pencil with some black and red chalk) - A lady (pencil and coloured chalk, oval, head) - A lady (black and red chalk) - A lady in a mob cap (pencil and red chalk) - Head of a lady (pencil and coloured chalk) - A lady (seated, facing, in a large hat and long necklace, signed Aug 26th 1815) - Portrait heads of 3 girls - 'Portrait of a lady; a drawing' - Two ladies - Couples dancing
Also includes the following drawings of subject pictures: - 'An historical drawing of the Sorceress, or Wolfold and Ulla. "Fair Ulla saw the awfull shade, etc." - Mickle' - Head of a Cardinal - study for The Trial of Queen Katherine - 'Sketch from a Picture by Titian at Naples' - 'The Sybil Persica after Michaelangelo' (crayons, Dec 5 1818) - 'Study from a Picture' (white chalk on brown paper, inscribed 'S. Petronio, G.H.H. Giacomo Cavedone. Bologna August 11th 1818') - Sketch - head of Christ (1815) - Kneeling woman (sketch after Ludovico Carracci, inscribed 'Galeria Milan Ludovico Carracci July 22 1818 G.H.H.')
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. |