After Sir Thomas Lawrence, Portrait of Youth

print/lithograph of an unidentified youth, in the manner of Sir Thomas Lawrence (British 1769-1830), unsigned in a matted frame with label verso "E & A Milch, 108 West 57th Street, New York NY", sight size 10 1/2" high, 8 1/4" wide. Some toning and water marks at bottom of matte, and evidence of staining on lower right of work, not examined out of frame. Thomas Lawrence was the most fashionable and also the greatest portraitist of his generation. Lawrence was born in Bristol, moved with his family to Devizes and then to Bath. He dominated the art of portrait painting in England for forty years, undertaking commissions for the future George IV from 1814. After 1818 Lawrence was largely occupied in the major royal commission for a series of portraits of the European leaders who had combined to defeat Napoleon. The series was initially proposed for Carlton House, but George IV's plans for Windsor Castle latterly came to include a new room specially created for the display of Lawrence's portraits, the Waterloo Chamber. E. & A. Milch was an art gallery in New York, N.Y. Founded in 1912 by Edward Milch (1865–1954), who
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