British pictures and their painters: an anecdotal guide to the British section of the National gallery (1913)
Lucas, E. V. (Edward Verrall), 1868-1938 · New York, The Macmillan company · leaf 186
ough, that she became instructorin reading to the royal princesses. In this portraitLawrence has painted her as she appeared whengiving readings at Court. Lawrence, who paintedMrs. Siddons so often, began to do so at the ageof thirteen. He both painted her and was one ofher assiduous admirers, but… … 1\IK A(iE OK IXNdCKNCEMy Sir yoshiia Reyjiolds LAWRENCE (SIR THOMAS) 127 and proposed to her. Fanny Kemble, to whom,later, his attentions also became marked, tells theunhappy story in her Record of a Girlhood. Bothwere consumptive and died young, Maria on herdeath-bed exacting a promise from Sarah…
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