Josiah Slater Early 19th.Century Group Portrait Drawing The Lancaster Family Circa.1830

Josiah Slater 1782-1837 British School Early 19th.Century. "Mrs Charles Lancaster, Margaret and her daughters Suzanna and Mary", a charming portrait study of three ladies, half length, pencil, watercolour, indistinctly titled verso, 45 by 35 cms image. Circa.1830.

Born at Wandsworth, London, Josiah Slater was a son of Joseph Slater Senior (1750–1805), a sucessful portraitist. Slater too worked as a portraitist in London, exhibiting his first picture at the Royal Academy in 1803, where he exhibited regularly between 1806 and 1833. Many of Josiah Slater's portraits were published as lithographs by his brother Isaac Wane Slater. His work is often miscatalogued as being by his contemporary Sir Thomas Lawrence. Slater worked mainly in pencil, crayons and watercolour and was very prolific, predominantly single figures, larger group portraits such as this example are uncommon.