AFTER SIR THOMAS LAWRENCEPORTRAIT OF WILLIAM BAKER OF BAYFORDBURYOil on canvas128 x 101cm (50¼ x 39¾ in.)After the signed canvas from 1805-1806 currently in a private collection in the United States (cat. no. 57 in Kenneth Garlick, Sir Thomas Lawrence, A complete catalogue of the oil paintings, Oxford 1989). William Baker, MP (1743-1824) was a founder-member of the Whig Club and member of the Friends of the People. In 1804 he inherited the portraits by Kneller of members of the Kit-Cat Club and in 1813 built a room to house them at his home, Bayfordbury, in Hertfordshire, where they remained until bought for the National Portrait Gallery in 1945.