Thomas Lawrie & Son

MESSRS. THOMAS LAWRIE & SON, Dealers in Works of Art, Decorators, &c., 85, St. Vincent Street, Glasgow.

    The well-known art galleries and repository for antiques and curios, founded more than half a century ago by the late Mr. Thomas Lawrie, has long come to be regarded as one of the institutions of the City.

    The premises include a large and handsome shop, in the two large windows of which are generally to be seen something rare or curious, such as a picture by some celebrated home or foreign artist, the handiwork of some craftsmen of the Renaissance period, or valuable articles of still remoter date. To the rear is the picture gallery, about 40 feet square, used for exhibitions of the pictorial art as illustrated by the various masters or schools ancient and modem. Upstairs there is a suite of three fine rooms filled with artistic articles of all periods and all countries, from early Greek down to modern French art. One sees a few fine specimens of Etruscan vases and Tanagra modelling, and one or two pieces of early Byzantine enamel, but Messrs. Lawrie have given their greatest attention and care to forming a fine collection of the works of the great masters of the French and Italian Renaissance, including cabinets, chairs, and all kinds of furniture ; bronzes by Jean de Bologna and others, Gubbio Majolica dishes by Maestro Georgio, Hispanc-Mauro vases and plates, Flemish and French tapestries, Italian and French Bijoux, Spanish stamped leather, &c., &c. Messrs. Lawrie also deal in very high-class pictures, principally of the Old English and French romantic schools. In a small luxurious private room upstairs one can always see examples of some of the following great artists ; Turner, Gainsborough, Reynolds, Constable, Crome, Millet, Corot, Rousseau, Troyon, and numerous others.

    In conjunction with the virtuosi side of the business a large high-class trade is carried on in artistic decoration and painting, picture-frame making and gilding, the branch and workshops for this department being situated at 130, Wellington Street. The firm have clients and correspondents in all parts of the world and are well known to the bulk of home and foreign collectors, art dealers, and artists. The present members of the firm, Mr. William Lawrie, son of the founder, and Mr. J. M. Brown, are both experts, and hold the highest rank in the business.

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