Katie Lawrence
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| Katie Lawrence | ||
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| Date of birth: | 17 September 1868 | |
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| Birth location: |  England |
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| Date of death: | 21 October 1913 (aged 45) | |
| Death location: | Birmingham, England |
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| Genre(s): | Music hall | |
| Spouse(s): | George Fuller | |
Katie Lawrence (17 September 1868 – 21 October 1913) was an English music-hall singer, best known for Harry Dacre's 1890s hit "Daisy Bell."
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The Impressionist painter Walter Sickert produced some hundred and sixty-six preparatory sketches of Lawrence performing at Gatti’s Hungerford Place of Varieties in 1887.[1] These formed the basis of a number of paintings he made of her in the 1880s and in 1903. Only one painting, that from 1903, survives; the rest are presumed destroyed. As recently as 2005, while this painting was undergoing routine restoration work, it was discovered that the Katie Lawrence scene was actually painted over an earlier composition.[2] Using X-rays, art restorers discerned a study of the exterior of a church beneath the music hall scene.
In a draft of the fifteenth episode of James Joyce's Ulysses (1922) Joyce uses Lawrence's name for one of the prostitutes in the brothel.[3]
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- Baron, Wendy Sickert: Paintings and Drawings, Yale University Press (2006).
- Dredge, Paula and Richard Beresford, "Walter Sickert at Gatti's: New Technical Evidence" in The Burlington Magazine (April 2006), pp. 264-69.
- Herring, Phillip. Joyce's Notes and Early Drafts for Ulysses: Selections from the Buffalo Collection, University of Virginia (1977).
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