Katie Lawrence
| Katie Lawrence | |
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| Born |
17 September 1868 England |
| Died | 21 October 1913 (aged 45) Birmingham, England |
| Occupation | Music hall singer |
| 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".
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. 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. 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 Ulysses (1922), James Joyce uses Lawrence's name for one of the prostitutes in the brothel.
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