The ''Portrait of Julia, Lady Peel'' is an 1827

portrait painting Portrait painting is a Hierarchy of genres, genre in painting, where the intent is to represent a specific human subject. The term 'portrait painting' can also describe the actual painted portrait. Portraitists may create their work by commissio ...

by the English

artist An artist is a person engaged in an activity related to creating art, practicing the arts, or demonstrating the work of art. The most common usage (in both everyday speech and academic discourse) refers to a practitioner in the visual arts o ...

Sir Thomas Lawrence Sir Thomas Lawrence (13 April 1769 – 7 January 1830) was an English people, English portrait painter and the fourth president of the Royal Academy. A child prodigy, he was born in Bristol and began drawing in Devizes, where his father was a ...

depicting Julia Peel, the wife of the politician Sir

Robert Peel Sir Robert Peel, 2nd Baronet (5 February 1788 – 2 July 1850), was a British Conservative statesman who twice was Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (1834–1835, 1841–1846), and simultaneously was Chancellor of the Exchequer (1834–183 ...

. She married Peel in 1820. When she sat for Lawrence, her husband was

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and later twice served as

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(1834–1835, 1841–1846). It was exhibited at the

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in 1827. The painting was sold by her grandson in 1896. It is now in the

Frick Collection The Frick Collection (colloquially known as the Frick) is an art museum on the Upper East Side of Manhattan in New York City. It was established in 1935 to preserve the collection of the industrialist Henry Clay Frick. The collection (museum) ...

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.Story, Schmidt & Goodfriend p.XI

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* Gash, Norman. ''Mr Secretary Peel: The Life of Sir Robert Peel to 1830''. Faber & Faber, 2011. * Hurd, Douglas. ''Robert Peel: A Biography''. Hachette UK, 2017. * Stott, Annette Schmidt, Benjamin & Goodfriend, Joyce. ''Going Dutch: The Dutch Presence in America 1609-2009''. Brill, 2009. 1827 paintings Paintings by Thomas Lawrence Portrait paintings in the Frick Collection Portraits of men {{1820s-painting-stub

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