Footnotes

• PROVENANCE:
  with Scott and Fowles, New York
  Sale, Sotheby Parke Bernet, Los Angeles, date unknown
  
  The sitter of the present lot was the wife of James Carpenter, a bookseller and publisher of 14 Old Bond Street, who would have been a neighbour of Lawrence, who also had premises on Old Bond Street at this time. The sitter is not to be confused with the artist Margaret Carpenter 1793-1872, (see lot 13) Lawrence's most famous pupil, who was the daughter in law of the subject of this drawing. The sitter's son, William Carpenter, Keeper of the Print Room at the British Museum, married Margaret Geddes who went on to study under Lawrence and become a well known artist in her own right.

Auction Notices

• The present lot has been reattributed. The cataloguing should read as follows: Margaret Sarah Carpenter (British, 1793-1872) Portrait of an elderly lady signed and dated 'Margaret Carpenter/1817' in pencil (lower left) pencil and watercolour 26 x 22 cm. (10 ¼ x 11 1/16 in) Please also note the change in estimate. We are grateful to Mr. Richard Smith for his assistance in the recataloguing of this lot.

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Category: Fine Art / 19th Century Paintings

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