VL, Mount Stewart, to [Thomas Lawrence]

RA Collection: Archive

Reference code

LAW/4/199

Title

VL, Mount Stewart, to [Thomas Lawrence]

Date

10 Mar 1824

Level

Item

Extent & medium

1 piece

Content Description

He asks whether Lawrence would exhibit the portrait of their son in the exhibition; he notes that the nation is pursuing "gallerys and works" and wonders what the government would offer him for his Correggio's but he feels no patriotism as the nation has only ever given him "sleepless nights and anxious days".