An artist's love story, told in the letters of Sir Thomas Lawrence, Mrs. Siddons, and her daughters (1904)
Knapp, Oswald G. (Oswald Greenwaye), 1859-, Lawrence, Thomas, Sir, 1769-1830, Siddons, Sarah, 1755-1831, Siddons, Sarah Martha, 1775-1798, Siddons, Maria, 1779-1798 · London, G. Allen · leaf 117
ions to his interviewwith Mrs. Pennington contained in Lawrencesletter, it appears that there was another reason forhis visit to Clifton besides his fear of Marias exer-cising an influence on her sister which might befatal to his suit. Sally, as we have said, was notdisposed to commit herself by a… … A PORTRAIT OF MARIA 95 Birmingham with this entirely imaginary personage.This is evidently the ungrounded suspicion forwhich he apologises, and which Mrs. Penningtonhad treated as the delusion of a madman. The drawing he speaks of at the close of hisletter was a portrait of Maria (now unhappily…
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