48:. Lawrie & Son sold fine art (especially Old Master and Romantic works) as well as antiques, furniture, and decorative objects. Moreover, a now-lost self-portrait by Vincent van Gogh might have passed through the hands of Lawrie & Co in the end of the 1880s. A letter from Theo van Gogh to Lawrie & Co. hints at such a sale (which would have been only the second known sale during the artist's lifetime). But the transaction does not show up in extant Lawrie & Co. record books and the letter may be a forgery. Moreover, the letter was addressed to Sulley and "Lori" of London in 1888, well before Lawrie & Co. had set up its London offices.
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Notwithstanding its acclaim, Lawrie & Co. closed its two offices, at 159 New Bond Street, London and 85 St
Vincent Street Glasgow on October 31, 1904. By that time, William Duff Lawrie, John Mackillop Brown, and Arthur Joseph Sulley were its partners. Christie, Manson, and Wood
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In its early twentieth century heyday, Lawrie's important clients included T. G. Arthur (Glasgow-based textile manufacturer), A. J. Kirkpatrick (president of the Royal
Glasgow Institute of the Fine Arts), W. A. Coats (British industrialist), D. T. Watson (attorney), and
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described the gallery's guiding principle as âfew but fitâ: Lawrie & Co. exhibited fine works (including in that year, John
Hoppner's portrait of Princess Amelia) but not many of them. In 1895, Lawrie & Co. exhibited more works by Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot,
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the theatre sponsor) was a painter and paperhanger. Before 1850, he had opened Thomas Lawrie & Son at 126 Union Street in
Glasgow, Scotland. By 1870, the business had moved to 85 Vincent Street and was advertising its "high-class" wares in the
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