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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:: 83279
Portrait of Thomas Thynne
. 1795(1795)
Medium Oil
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Painting ID:: 83339
Countess of Inchiquin
18th century
Medium Oil on canvas
Dimensions 125 x 100 cm (49.2 x 39.4 in)
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Painting ID:: 83391
Portrait of the Honorable Mrs
1828(1828)
Medium Oil on canvas
Dimensions 142.24 x 111.92 cm (56 x 44.1 in)
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Painting ID:: 85147
Portrait of Mary Palmer
1790(1790)
Medium Oil on canvas
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Painting ID:: 85223
Portrait of Lady Elizabeth Leveson Gower
1816(1816)
Medium Oil on canvas
Dimensions 76 x 63 cm (29.9 x 24.8 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: | William Turner | Wilhelm Steinhausen | Mair von Landshut | The Brunswick Monogrammist | Hirst, Claude Raguet |
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