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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:: 44602
Sarah Siddons
mk173
1790
Pencil on paper
19.1x12.4cm
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Painting ID:: 44603
Sarah Siddons as the Tragic Muse
mk173
ca.1804
20.3x16.5cm
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Painting ID:: 56158
pinkie
mk247
1794,oil on canvas,58x40 in,148x102 cm,huntington art collections,san marino,ca,usa
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Painting ID:: 59549
Alexander MacKenzie painted by Thomas Lawrence
Alexander MacKenzie painted by Thomas Lawrence (c.1800), courtesy National Gallery of Canada.
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Painting ID:: 59550
A portrait of Elizabeth Farren by Thomas Lawrence
A portrait of Elizabeth Farren by Thomas Lawrence
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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: | Henri Testelin | Pontormo, Jacopo | Francesco Zugno | Wall, William Guy | ABBATE, Niccolo dell |
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