[draft] Thomas Lawrence to Miss Farren

RA Collection: Archive

Reference code

LAW/1/25

Title

[draft] Thomas Lawrence to Miss Farren

Date

[1790]

Level

Item

Extent & medium

1 piece

Content Description

Apologises for the Academy's mistake in describing her portrait her picture in the catalogue as a portrait of an "Actress", he had described it as a portrait of a Lady; he mentions the practice of exhibitors in supplying the Academy with two lists on submitting their pictures, one with the titles as they should appear in the catalogue, the other with the real names of the portraits; on visiting the Secretary of the Academy he found that his list was the only one missing from the pile.

Bibliography

Published, Letter-Bag, Layard, 1906, p.12.