#LondonPeachy #CulturedPeachy @NationalGallery Newly acquired Sir Thomas Lawrence’s ‘The Red Boy’ goes on display at the National Gallery
National Gallery has acquired Portrait of Charles William Lambton (1818-31) by Sir Thomas Lawrence (1769 – 1830) for the nation.
The 1825 work – world renowned as ‘The Red Boy’ – was made when Lawrence, one of the first trustees of the National Gallery, was at the height of his powers as painter and portraitist, a year after the Gallery opened to the public in 1824. Such is its status, in 1967 ‘The Red Boy’ was the first painting ever to be included on a British postage stamp.
The newly conserved painting – which has been purchased from a private collection by private treaty sale via Christie’s – will go on display from Tuesday 30 November in Room 35 of the National Gallery with other British paintings by William Hogarth, Joseph Wright of Derby, Thomas Gainsborough, and George Stubbs.
Image caption
Sir Thomas Lawrence
Portrait of Charles William Lambton
1825
Unframed H 137.2 x W 111.8 cm
Private collection
Image © The National Gallery, London
