Prints, Drawings, and Photographs Mad Girl 1786 Sir Thomas Lawrence, English, 1769 - 1830 Pastel on brushed vellum Currently not on view 1985-51-1 Purchased with the SmithKline Beckman Corporation Fund, 1985 |
LabelThis powerful pastel head is by the seventeen-year-old Thomas Lawrence, who would become one of the finest of all English portrait painters. It was shown in London at the Royal Academy in 1787. On the back of the frame appears the following inscription in the artist's hand: Madsong |
