Charles Small Pybus Gainsborough This painting was reviously catalogued

This painting was reviously catalogued as Monamy

Gudlaugsson's attribution to De Moor (on photograph mount

reflects certainly the impact of Van Laer's famous figure style and subject matter on the younger artist

but in this case the evidence is not conclusive

Tradition holds that Lawrence was burned or "grilled" to death

Charles Small Pybus Gainsborough This painting was reviously cataloguedCharles Small Pybus (1766 1810) was MP for Dover from 1790 and Lord of the Admiralty 1791 7 and of the Treasury 1797 1803. He was more noted for his pomposity and ambition than for any achievement. Beechey remarked on his irritable temper and said that 'he was very vain of His knowledge of pictures, but in reality knew nothing abt. them' (The Diary of Joseph Farington, XI, New Haven and London, 1983, p. 3882). He was a friend and business partner of