Giovanni Boldini – Portrait of the Artist Lawrence Alexander (‘Peter’) Harrison (1902)

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Giovanni Boldini – Portrait of the Artist Lawrence Alexander (‘Peter’) Harrison (1902)

“Lawrence Alexander “Peter” Harrison (1866-1937) was an English portrait artist and landscape painter, as well as a collector of contemporary art. In 1890 he married Alma Strettell (a friend and subject of John Singer Sargent). He was a member of the “Chelsea set” and joined the New English Art Club in 1904. He rarely exhibited his work — just a few times with the NEAC. He was friends with Henry Tonks, and Philip Wilson Steer.

Boldini’s depiction of Lawrence Alexander “Peter” Harrison is among the most distinguished and sophisticated of Boldini’s male portraits. Boldini may have first met Peter Harrison through American artist John Singer Sargent, with whom Boldini was friends and whose portrait Boldini painted in 1889 [thumbnail]. Peter and his brother Leonard Frederic “Ginx” Harrison, nephews of Robert Harrison of Wargrave, Berkshire, were Sargent’s close friends and traveling companions. They accompanied Sargent on his travels to Switzerland and Italy, where Sargent featured them in a series of dazzling watercolor studies, including Group with Parasols [thumbnail], as well as Siesta [thumbnail], both in private collections.

As the great American writer and doyenne of Parisian artistic and literary circles Gertrude Stein presciently noted, “when times have established values at their correct places, Boldini will be recognized as the greatest painter of the last century. All the new school was born of him, since he first, simplified the line and the planes.”

Boldini’s Portrait of Lawrence Alexander “Peter” Harrison is one of his last paintings of an artist remaining in private hands. His portraits of Whistler, Degas, Helleu and Menzel have already entered museum collections in America and Europe.”

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