WILLIAMS, Lewis (1766-1808). Son of John Merrick Williams of Cairowena and Anglesea, and of Retreat, Westmorland, Jamaica. c. 1790. 30 X 25. Standing, looking r. ; red coat, buff vest, white stock, powdered hair; curtain background. 1. Mrs William Ricketts Johnson (sister of sitter); her daughter Elizabeth Johnson Rowe; anon. (= Valentine Rowe), Christie, 26 June, 1914 (73), bt. Leach; Knoedler, New York, by whom sold to Vandyck Galleries, Washington, 1924. Lit. Garlick, p. 63. Appendix I, A 33. 2. 'In blue coaƄ (but perhaps a wrong description), anon., Christie, 19 July, 1918 (133), bt. Willis. Perhaps identical w 1.
There was also portrait of the same date of Raby Williams, Lewis Williams' brother, recorded by Garlick.
GARLICK, KENNETH. "A Catalogue of the Paintings, Drawings and Pastels of Sir Thomas Lawrence." The Volume of the Walpole Society 39 (1962): 3-336. Accessed April 3, 2020. www.jstor.org/stable/41829342.
Collector?
Yes
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Dispersal Date
30th Nov -0001
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