About This Artwork

Sir Thomas Lawrence
English, 1769-1830

Portrait of the Honorable George Canning, M.P., c. 1822

Oil on canvas
36 x 28 in. (91.4 x 71.1 cm)
Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Denison B. Hull, 1974.389

Exhibition, Publication and Ownership Histories

Publication History

Kenneth Garlick, A Catalogue of the Paintings, Drawings, and Pastels of Sir Thomas Lawrence, Walpole Society 39 (1964), p. 48.

John D. Morse, Old Master Paintings In North America (New York, 1979), p. 192.

Ownership History

Sale, Robinson and Fischer, London, July 7, 1927, lot 200; sold to Bull [according to mount of photo in the Witt Library, London]. Mr. and Mrs. Denison B. Hull, Chicago by 1965 [see the Registrar's receipt, dated April 23, 1965]; on loan to the Art Institute, 1965; given to the Art Institute, 1974.