WILLIAMS, Lewis (1766-1808). Son of John Merrick Williams of Cairowena and Anglesea, and of Retreat, Westmorland, Jamaica. c. 1790. 30 X 25. Standing, looking r. ; red coat, buff vest, white stock, powdered hair; curtain background. 1. Mrs William Ricketts Johnson (sister of sitter); her daughter Elizabeth Johnson Rowe; anon. (= Valentine Rowe), Christie, 26 June, 1914 (73), bt. Leach; Knoedler, New York, by whom sold to Vandyck Galleries, Washington, 1924. Lit. Garlick, p. 63. Appendix I, A 33. 2. 'In blue coať (but perhaps a wrong description), anon., Christie, 19 July, 1918 (133), bt. Willis. Perhaps identical w 1.
There was also portrait of the same date of Raby Williams, Lewis Williams' brother, recorded by Garlick.
GARLICK, KENNETH. "A Catalogue of the Paintings, Drawings and Pastels of Sir Thomas Lawrence." The Volume of the Walpole Society 39 (1962): 3-336. Accessed April 3, 2020. www.jstor.org/stable/41829342.
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Collector?
Yes
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Dispersal Date
30th Nov -0001
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1801 - 25th Nov 1880
English clergyman, resident in Jamaica from 1827 but returning to England with his Jamaican-born wife and children six years later.
Document comprises 4 parts, written recto and verso across 5 folios: 1. An inventory and valuation of enslaved persons at Windsor Estate, St Elizabeth parish, Jamaica, 1814. 2. An inventory and valuation of enslaved persons at Williamsfield settlement, St Elisabeth parish, Jamaica, 1814. 3. An inventory of animals at Windsor Estate, St Elizabeth parish, Jamaica, 1814. 4. A cover note outlining the contents of the document.
