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In this charming double portrait by the society painter Sir Thomas Lawrence, the mother gently supports and presents her son, their figures arranged in a series of entwined curves. The little boy wears a suit of a striking red, a colour much favoured by Lawrence. This is balanced by his mother’s sweeping white dress and cloak with its braided edge. She is Sabine, née Robarts, the wife of Charles Thellusson (1770–1815), with their son Charles. Both Sabine and her husband came from banking families. His father was the financier Peter Thellusson, who had left his property tied up in a famous will, which eventually the death of Charles, the young boy in the painting, would unlock. This enabled his own son, Charles Sabine Thellusson to inherit the Brodsworth estate in Yorkshire.
English Heritage, Brodsworth Hall
Doncaster
Title
Mrs Charles Thellusson, née Sabine Robarts (1775–1814), and Her Son, Charles Thellusson (1797–1856)
Date
c.1804
Medium
oil on canvas
Measurements
H 240 x W 146 cm
Accession number
90009300
Acquisition method
purchased, as part of the contents of Brodsworth Hall, from Pamela Williams by the National Heritage Memorial Fund and transferred to English Heritage, 1990
Work type
Painting
English Heritage, Brodsworth Hall
Brodsworth, Doncaster, South Yorkshire DN5 7XJ England
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