Portrait of Lucy Lawrence, the artist's mother, a sketch

Sir Thomas Lawrence, P.R.A. (Bristol 1769-1830 London) Portrait of Lucy Lawrence, the artist's mother, a sketch indisctinctly inscribed 'Sir Tho Lawrence's Mother Sketched by him ...she died in May 1797 from a paralitic attack and given by him to Anne...Bloxam' (lower centre) oil on canvas, unlined 30 x 25 in. (76.3 x 63.5 cm.) with the label '[I give] the painting of my dear Mother - painted when on her death Bed to my [1st?] Son Thomas Lawrence Bloxam this day April 28 - 1832 - Witness Andrew Bloxam Anne Bloxam' (on the stretcher, lower left)