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.
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 Ulysses (1922), James Joyce uses Lawrence's name for one of the prostitutes in the brothel.