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Sir Thomas Lawrence
1769-1830
British
Sir Thomas Lawrence Galleries
was a notable English painter, mostly of portraits.
He was born in Bristol. His father was an innkeeper, first at Bristol and afterwards at Devizes, and at the age of six Lawrence was already being shown off to the guests of the Bear as an infant prodigy who could sketch their likenesses and declaim speeches from Milton. In 1779 the elder Lawrence had to leave Devizes, having failed in business and Thomas's precocious talent began to be the main source of the family's income; he had gained a reputation along the Bath road. His debut as a crayon portrait painter was made at Oxford, where he was well patronized, and in 1782 the family settled in Bath, where the young artist soon found himself fully employed in taking crayon likenesses of fashionable people at a guinea or a guinea and a half a head. In 1784 he gained the prize and silver-gilt palette of the Society of Arts for a crayon drawing after Raphael's "Transfiguration," and presently beginning to paint in oil.
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Painting ID:: 38204
Miss Louisa Murray
mk29
1827
Oil on canvas
92.7x73.3cm
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Painting ID:: 40625
Portrait of Master Ainslie
mk156
1794
Oil on canvas
91.5x71.4cm
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Painting ID:: 43309
John Julius Angerstein,Aged Over 80
mk170
1824
Oil on canvas
91.4x71.1cm
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Painting ID:: 43310
Queen Charlotte
mk170
1789
Oil on canvas
239.4x147.3cm
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Painting ID:: 44036
Portrait of the Children of John Angerstein
1808
Oil on canvas,
194 x 144 cm
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Sir Thomas Lawrence
1769-1830
British
Sir Thomas Lawrence Galleries
was a notable English painter, mostly of portraits.
He was born in Bristol. His father was an innkeeper, first at Bristol and afterwards at Devizes, and at the age of six Lawrence was already being shown off to the guests of the Bear as an infant prodigy who could sketch their likenesses and declaim speeches from Milton. In 1779 the elder Lawrence had to leave Devizes, having failed in business and Thomas's precocious talent began to be the main source of the family's income; he had gained a reputation along the Bath road. His debut as a crayon portrait painter was made at Oxford, where he was well patronized, and in 1782 the family settled in Bath, where the young artist soon found himself fully employed in taking crayon likenesses of fashionable people at a guinea or a guinea and a half a head. In 1784 he gained the prize and silver-gilt palette of the Society of Arts for a crayon drawing after Raphael's "Transfiguration," and presently beginning to paint in oil.
. Related Artists to Sir Thomas Lawrence: | Bartholomeus van Bassen | Adrianus Eversen | DUSART, Cornelis | Charles Alphonse du Fresnoy | Lavinia Fontana |
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