Portrait of Cecil Lawson

Sir Hubert von Herkomer|Cecil Gordon Lawson|The Fine Art Society, London|J. S. Virtue & Co.

1882 · Drypoint · Drawings and Prints

Herkomer based this etching on a watercolor portrait of Cecil Lawson, made in 1877 (National Portrait Gallery, London); a reduced version was made as a frontispiece in "Memoir of Cecil Lawson" by Edmund W. Gosse (1883). Lawson was a painter, watercolorist and member of the Idyllists, whose death at age thirty-two cut short a promising career. He was a close friend of Herkomer's and the two often sketched together in the late 1870s. An impression of the print was exhibited at M. Knoedler & Co., New York in 1882 (no.33) with the following caption by Herkomer: "A dear friend of mine, who died this summer [on June 10, 1882], under painful circumstances. A bright future, full of genius, whose landscapes will be remembered by the frequenters of the Grosvenor Gallery. I etched this for biographical work about to be published. It is pure drypoint."

Artist

Sir Hubert von Herkomer|Cecil Gordon Lawson|The Fine Art Society, London|J. S. Virtue & Co.

Date

1882

Medium

Drypoint

Department

Drawings and Prints

Credit line

Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1917