Category
Paintings
Distinguishing marks
"Pinkie after Lawrence" portrait in wooden frame with gold leaf covering / paint. There is a gold plate at the bottom that states the picture name. It is a copy I believe as you can see the stroke marks but the surface is smooth. There is a label on the back as follows "This is a TURNER Wall Accessory. This is one of hundred of accessories manufactured by Turner Mfg. Co.,America's largest producer of decorative accessories for the home. It has sticker with code 36, style# 3490. This also has a stamp with the number 251638.
Condition
Fair
Size and dimensions of this item
29.25" wide by 35.25" high
Date Period
unsure
History
This was given to us by a friend who was helping his aunt move in Illinois. She was going to throw it away and he did not want it so we kept it to ensure it would not be destroyed. We could only find a little information on the paintings such as Turner Mfg Co. was based out of Chicago and was closed around 1975.
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Price Paid (If known)
free
For Sale?
No
Re: "Pinkie after Lawrence" portrait
I have the same picture but diffrent numbers.
Re: "Pinkie after Lawrence" portrait
The mate to this is called Blue Boy.
Re: "Pinkie after Lawrence" portrait
I HAVE SAME PAINTING FROM MY GRANDMA WHO HAS PASSED AWAY MANY YEARS AGO, MY MOM AND MY AUNT GAVE IT TO ME WHEN SHE PASSED, CAUSE THEY SAID i WAS THE ONLY ONE WHO EVER EVEN NOTICED IT AND i ALWAYS LOVED IT. bUT i DONT SEE ANY NUMBERS ON BACK OF THE PAINTING, JUST THE GOLD PLATE ON FRONT OF PAINTING READING AFTER LAWRENCE. iF ANYONE HAS ANY INFO PLEASE LET ME KNOW i KNOW MY GRANDMA HAD THE PAINTING HANGING ON HER LIVING ROOM WALL SINCE THE 1960'S. TY JOANNA
Re: "Pinkie after Lawrence" portrait
Yes I have the same one also blue boy and Pinkie with the plate on the bottom of the frame so did you ever get a reply as far as they're worth?
Re: "Pinkie after Lawrence" portrait
I have pinkie and blue boy.. by thomas lawrence and thomas gainsborough.
size is with frame 70x55 with out frame 62x46 the painting number on back is 17566.. they both are hung in california huntington museum
lawrence died in 1830 and gainsborough died in 1788 found on tag on back of paintings said made in usa. i have no idea how old these are , but frame and pictures are in excellent shape ,looks like painted with oil ,
not 100 % sure still trying to fine out for sure.
Re: "Pinkie after Lawrence" portrait
I got "Pinkie from Lawrence", for Christmas from my daughter, I know that she belongs in a set with the portrait "Blue Boy, for a long time growing up with a smaller version of the paintings Blue boy and Pinkie, I thought they were brother and sister, Actually, Blue Boy and Pinkie are not related to each other by blood â either their own blood or Gainsboroughâs. The Blue Boy is believed to be a portrait of Jonathan Buttall, the son of a prominent English hardware merchant. It is a historical costume study. Though he posed for the painting around 1770, Buttall is pictured wearing clothing in the style of the previous century. Pinkie was painted nearly a quarter of a century after Blue Boy, in 1794, by Thomas Lawrence, another British painter. Gainsborough had been dead for twelve years by the time Pinkie came into existence. It is a portrait of Sarah Barrett Moulton, who was approximately eleven years old and wearing contemporary clothing when she posed for it. Thus, her clothing style and Blue Boyâs are separated from each other by more than a century and a half. Sarah was the daughter of a wealthy Jamaican plantation owner named Charles Barrett Moulton. She was born and raised in Jamaica but, shortly before posing for her portrait, traveled to England to further her education.Tragedy befell the subjects of both paintings. Buttall inherited his portrait from his father, but was forced to surrender it when he filed for bankruptcy in 1796. Sarah Barrett Moultonâs fate was even sadder. She died, at approximately twelve years of age, in 1795, one year after Lawrence painted her. The cause of death is believed to have been whooping cough, possibly contracted from her brother Edward. Perhaps that is why Edward wound up acquiring her portrait for himself. Edward, who later changed his last name to Moulton-Barrett, eventually fathered one of the most famous poets in all of English literature, Elizabeth Barrett Browning. Thus, Sarah Barrett Moulton, known as âPinkieâ to her family, was Elizabeth Barrett Browningâs aunt. Alas, aunt and niece never knew each other. The poet was born roughly eleven years after the death of the famous portrait model.
It wasnât consanguinity that linked Blue Boy and Pinkie for posterity. It was money. According to the Wikipedia, the two works had no association whatsoever until American railroad magnate Henry Edwards Huntington, acquired them both in 1921 and relocated them from England to the art gallery of his famous Huntington Library complex in Southern California. The British public was outraged by the sale of The Blue Boy, which was regarded as a national treasure. According to the Wikipedia 90,000 Britons came by to wish the painting a fond farewell when it was put on display in the National Gallery shortly before leaving Britain forever. Pinkie was not as well known nor as well loved as The Blue Boy at the time of its sale to Huntington, thus few tears were shed over her departure. It wasnât until the two pictures were hanging together in the Huntington gallery that their obvious similarities caused them to become linked forever in the popular imagination. According to William Wilson, author of The Los Angeles Times Book of California Museums, Blue Boy and Pinkie are âthe Romeo and Juliet of Rococo portraiture.â He further notes that âThey have decorated cocktail coasters, appeared in advertisements, and stopped the show as the tableaux vivants at the Laguna Beach âPageant of the Masters.â For all that they remain intrinsically lovelyâŠThe subjects are certainly in the springtime of life, but their freshness is lent a certain poignancy by the rather grown-up garb that suggests both the transience of youth and the attempt to cling to it. Besides, both are extraordinarily fine pictures, easy and dramatic at once.â
Re: "Pinkie after Lawrence" portrait
I have the same one blue boy being a smaller version than the pinky both have brass plates on the bottom of frame. From Turners wall accessories they look to be about from the sixties anyways are they of any value?
Re: "Pinkie after Lawrence" portrait
I have the same ones pinky being a smaller bigger version than blue boy with a glass plate at the bottom of frame the back of Pinky's friend says Turner accessories licks to believe from the sixties are there one of these worth much value?
Re: "Pinkie after Lawrence" portrait
The Turner examples were made as low cost Decorator Art from the 1950's through 70's. They are mass produced prints of very limited value, at auction they often sell for less than $75.00.