This is one of my favorites and you have done a wonderful copy. I did a copy of the Calmody children and in doing so, I learned a lot from Lawrence.
However, I do disagree with your statement:
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...(not people dressed in modern clothes painted in a hundred year-old style, or worse, people dressed in antique costume to justify an old style).
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How a person chooses to dress and the style that a painter chooses to work in, need not conform to some arbitrary standard of anyone's taste. Personally I would prefer to not paint a kid in a T-shirt, but I would certainly not judge it to be "wrong" or "bad" for any artist to do so.
Also, if an artist cannot paint in a style that you consider "old," this would sadly narrow the creative range of ways that any of us might feel drawn to explore or paint.
Quite frankly, I think that most artists do not paint in an "old style" because they lack the technical skills...it isn't someting commonly taught nowadays in art schools.