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Sir Thomas Lawrence
1769-1830
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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:: 77776
Portrait of Henry Cecil, 1st Marquess of Exeter (1754-1804) with his wife Sarah, and their daughter, Lady Sophia Cecil
ca. 1794
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Painting ID:: 77797
George III of the United Kingdom
1792
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Painting ID:: 77880
Portrait of Frederick H. Hemming
Portrait of Frederick H. Hemming, c. 1824?C25, oil on canvas painting by Thomas Lawrence, Kimbell Art Museum.
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Painting ID:: 78499
Portrait of Princess Caroline Ferdinande of Bourbon-Two Sicilies Duchess of Berry.
1825(1825)
Oil on canvas
71 x 91 cm (28 x 35.8 in)
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Painting ID:: 78593
Self-portrait
1787-1788
Oil on canvas
59 x 50 cm (23.2 x 19.7 in)
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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: | Edouard Louis Dubufe | Giuseppe Canella | Abraham Hondius | Charles Meynier | Albert Henry Fullwood |
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