Portrait of Cecil Lawson 1882 Sir Hubert von Herkomer Herkomer based this etching on a watercolor portrait of Cecil Lawson, made in 1877 (National Portrait Gallery, London); a reduced version was made as a frontispiece in "Memoir of Cecil Lawson" by Edmund W. Gosse (1883). Lawson was a painter, watercolorist and member of the Idyllists, whose death at age thirty-two cut short a promising career. He was a close friend of Herkomer's and the two often sketched together in the late impression of the print was exhibited at M. Knoedler & Co., New York in 1882 () with the following capt

Portrait of Cecil Lawson 1882 Sir Hubert von Herkomer Herkomer based this etching on a watercolor portrait of Cecil Lawson, made in 1877 (National Portrait Gallery, London); a reduced version was made as a frontispiece in "Memoir of Cecil Lawson" by Edmund W. Gosse (1883). Lawson was a painter, watercolorist and member of the Idyllists, whose death at age thirty-two cut short a promising career. He was a close friend of Herkomer's and the two often sketched together in the late impression of the print was exhibited at M. Knoedler & Co., New York in 1882 () with the following caption by Herkomer: "A dear friend of mine, who died this summer [on June 10, 1882], under painful circumstances. A bright future, full of genius, whose landscapes will be remembered by the frequenters of the Grosvenor Gallery. I etched this for biographical work about to be published. It is pure drypoint.". Portrait of Cecil Lawson. Sir Hubert von Herkomer (British, Waal, Bavaria 1849–1914 Budleigh Salterton, Devon). 1882. Drypoint. The Fine Art Society, London. Cecil Gordon Lawson (British, Wellington, Shropshire 1849–1882 London). Prints

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