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Eastman Johnson Catalogue Raisonné
Patricia Hills, PhD, Founder and Director | Abigael MacGibeny, MA, Project Manager

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Frances Adelaide Garner Lawrance and Frances Margaret Lawrance Vernon, c.1895 (Hills no. 31.7.12). Photograph of Frances Adelaide Garner Lawrance, reproduced on Find-A-Grave.com
Photograph of Frances Adelaide Garner Lawrance, reproduced on Find-A-Grave.com
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31.7 U.S. Portraits, Groups

Some of Johnson’s most memorable paintings were his small scale compositions of family groups. Such works as these, traditionally called “conversation pieces,” trace their pedigree to England and seventeenth-century Holland. They were commissioned group portraits of wealthy patrons as they wanted to be seen, usually surrounded by sumptuous furnishing and a coterie of family and friends. —PH

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Hills no. 31.7.12
Frances Adelaide Garner Lawrance and Frances Margaret Lawrance Vernon
Alternate titles: Mrs. Francis C. Lawrence [sic] and Daughter Lady Vernon; Mrs. Frank Lawrence [sic] & Daughter; Mrs. Frank Lawrence [sic] and Her Daughter, Lady Vernon; Mrs. Frank Lawrence [sic] and Lady Vernon
c.1895
Oil
[dimensions unknown]
Present whereabouts unknown
Description / Remarks

MacGibeny, 2021: See the linked photograph of Frances Adelaide Garner Lawrance for her likeness. For a likeness of her daughter, see the portrait Frances Margaret Lawrance, Lady Vernon by Jules-Joseph Lefebvre, 1883, owned by Sudbury Hall, National Trust, United Kingdom.

Provenance
Present whereabouts unknown
Exhibitions
1895 NAD
National Academy of Design, New York, Loan Exhibition of Portraits for the Benefit of St. John's Guild and the Orthopaedic Hospital, October 13–December 7, 1895. (NAD 1895), no. 179, as Mrs. Frank Lawrence [sic] and Lady Vernon, owner Eastman Johnson.
1899 NAD
National Academy of Design, New York, April 3–May 13, 1899. (NAD 1899), no. 109, as Mrs. Frank Lawrence [sic] and Her Daughter, Lady Vernon.
1900 PAFA
Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, Spring 1900, no. 207, as Mrs. Francis C. Lawrence [sic] and Daughter Lady Vernon.
References
NAD 1895
Loan Exhibition of Portraits for the Benefit of St. John's Guild and the Orthopaedic Hospital. New York: National Academy of Design, 1895. Exhibition catalogue (1895 NAD).
New-York Daily Tribune 1895
"Portraits by the Score: Second Annual Loan Exhibition Opens this Afternoon. List of Some of the More Notable Ones to be Shown at the National Academy for the Benefit of St. John's Guild and the Orthopedic Hospital." New-York Daily Tribune (New York), October 30, 1895, "Conspicuous in the East Room…are also the full-length portrait of Mrs. Spencer Trask, by Eastman Johnson, Mrs. Daniel Chauncey, by Benjamin Constant, Miss Helen Dunham, by Sargent, and Mrs. Frank Lawrence [sic] and Lady Vernon, by Eastman Johnson."
NAD 1899
New York: National Academy of Design, 1899. Exhibition catalogue (1899 NAD), no. 109, as Mrs. Frank Lawrence [sic] and Her Daughter, Lady Vernon.
Kennedy Galleries 1920
Catalogue of an Exhibition of Charcoal Drawings by Eastman Johnson. New York: Kennedy Galleries, 1920. Exhibition catalogue (1920 Kennedy Galleries), p. 11, addendum "Paintings by Eastman Johnson," as Mrs. Frank Lawrence [sic] & Daughter.
Douglass 1999
Douglass, Julie M. "Lifetime Exhibition History." In Eastman Johnson: Painting America, by Teresa A. Carbone and Patricia Hills. Brooklyn, NY: Brooklyn Museum of Art, in association with Rizzoli International Publications, 1999. Exhibition catalogue, pp. 265, 266.
Sitter Biography
Sitter: Lawrance, Frances Adelaide Garner
Biography:

Frances Adelaide Garner Lawrance (1835–1908). Wife of Francis Cooper Lawrance (1830–1911). Mother of Frances Margaret Lawrance (d. 1940), who became Lady Vernon when she married George William Henry Vernon, 7th Baron Vernon (m. 1885). 

Sitter: Lawrance, Frances Margaret, Lady Vernon
Biography:

Frances Margaret Lawrance (d. 1940). Daughter of Francis Cooper Lawrance (1830–1911) and Frances Adelaide Garner (1835–1908). Wife of George William Henry Vernon, 7th Baron Vernon (m. 1885).

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Record last updated March 22, 2022. Please note that the information on this and all pages is periodically reviewed and subject to change.
Citation: Hills, Patricia, and Abigael MacGibeny. "Frances Adelaide Garner Lawrance and Frances Margaret Lawrance Vernon, c.1895 (Hills no. 31.7.12)." Eastman Johnson Catalogue Raisonné. www.eastmanjohnson.org/catalogue/entry.php?id=710 (accessed on May 3, 2024).