◧ Artist: Sir Thomas Lawrence (1769–1830)
◧ Country: Great Britain
◧ Title: [Pinkie - Sarah Barrett Moulton]
◧ Medium: Oil painting on canvas
◧ Painting Size: 148 × 102 cm
◧ Title: [Pinkie - Sarah Barrett Moulton]
◧ Medium: Oil painting on canvas
◧ Painting Size: 148 × 102 cm
◧ Museum: Huntington Library, San Marino, California, USA
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◧ County of Stamp Issue: Great Britain
◧ Date of Issue: August 12, 1968
◧ Face Value: 1 British Shilling
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Sarah Goodin Barrett Moulton was born on 22 March 1783, in Little River, St. James, Jamaica. She was the only daughter and eldest of the four children of Charles Moulton, a merchant from Madeira, and his wife Elizabeth. Inside her family, she was called Pinkie or Pinkey.
In September 1792, Sarah and her brothers sailed to England to get a better education. Sarah was sent to Mrs Fenwick's school at Flint House, Greenwich, along with other children from Jamaican colonial families. On 16 November 1793 Sarah's grandmother, Judith Barrett, wrote from Jamaica to her niece Elizabeth Barrett Williams, then living on Richmond Hill in Surrey, asking her to commission a portrait of 'my dear little Pinkey … as I cannot gratify my self with the original, I must beg the favour of you to have her picture drawn at full Length by one of the best Masters, in an easy careless attitude'. Sarah probably began sitting for Lawrence at his studio in Old Bond Street soon after the receipt of this letter on 11 February 1794.
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