Re: NEED HELP IDENTIFYING MARK ON PINK LAWRENCE PITCHER

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Posted by Emporium Antiques (217.151.109.80) on 11/06/07

It must be IRONSTONE.

Pinkie (Sarah Barret Moulton 1794) by Thomas Lawrence (1769-1830) is popular in the US at the moment. There's a piece on eBay which may resemble the jug you have, No. 300119227982

A little I found out today:

Executed when the artist was only 25 and shortly after his election to the Royal Academy, Pinkie is an extraordinarily fresh and lively performance with the sitter standing on a hill, her dress blown by the wind. The movement of her dress in conjunction with her frank gaze gives a sense of immediacy to the composition and expresses the animation of the sitter. The young girl was the daughter of a wealthy plantation family in Jamaica, who came to England for her education. Called "Pinkie" by her grandmother who commissioned the portrait, she was only eleven when her likeness was taken. Sadly, Sarah died within a few months of the portrait's completion, probably of tuberculosis. Her younger brother Edward was the father of the poetess Elizabeth Barrett Browning. Pinkie was the last painting purchased by Mr. Huntington, who did not live to see it installed in the house.

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