Description: Rare Limited Edition 350 Antique Circa 1890-1910 Mezzotint Embossed 'Artist Proof' Mark - Pencil Signed C. Fitzgerald - The Red Boy after Sir Thomas Lawrence, a portrait of the son of Earl Of Durham. Plate size: 31cm x 24cm - Sheet size: 43cm x 34cm This is being sold with a fairly recent cream mount, and the original backing sheet of paper the mezzotint is lightly taped to, and with it's original "tea-box" wooden backing board, with the sellers label on the verso, that reads; "Mezzotint Engraving by C. Fitzgerald The Red Boy after the Original by Sir Thomas Lawrence P.R.A. Edition Limited 350." C. Fitzgerald (1800s-1900s) was an English painter and mezzotint artist who exhibited between 1890 and 1910. He was known for his genre, sentimental and mythological subjects and landscapes. The artist Sir Thomas Lawrence (1769-1830), a notable English painter specialty in portraits, born in Bristol, England, - and where this item currently is. One of Lawrence's most famous paintings, Charles William Lambton, subsequently known as The Red Boy (1825), was painted for John Lampton 1792-1840 first earl of Durham at the price of 600 guineas. The portrait attracted much praise when it was exhibited in Paris in 1827. It has frequently graced tins of toffees and shortbread, and in 1969 appeared on the British 4d postage stamp. Wordsworth, the great poet of remembered childhood, said of The Red Boy when it was first exhibited: “Lawrence’s portrait of young Lambton is a wretched histrionic thing; the public taste must be vitiated indeed, if that is admired.” A recent art critic in the London Observer noted dryly: “Lawrence painted children the way Disney does deer.” Charles Lambton would die tragically aged thirteen. He is a child who will never live to grow up. Moreover we learn that he was quickly assumed to be an imaginary portrait of the dreaming youthful Byron, the very soul of English Romanticism. This was partly why he was reproduced across Europe, and then America, as a symbol of eternal hope and youthful promise. The original portrait remains in the collection of the Lampton Family.
Price: 225 GBP
Location: BRISTOL
End Time: 2024-12-12T20:43:51.000Z
Shipping Cost: 18.94 GBP
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Artist: Sir Thomas Lawrence, C Fitzgerald
Type: Mezzotint Engraving
Year of Production: 1890-1910
Size: Medium
Theme: The Red Boy
Features: Limited Edition
Production Technique: Mezzotint
Original/Licensed Reprint: Original
Subject: Boys
