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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:: 94456
Portrait of Henry Dundas
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Painting ID:: 94457
Portrait of Sir Arthur Wellesley, Duke of Wellington
1814(1814)
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Painting ID:: 94458
William Wilberforce
1828(1828)
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Painting ID:: 94468
Portrait of the Honorable Mrs. Seymour Bathurst
1828(1828)
Medium oil on canvas
Dimensions 142.24 x 111.92 cm (56 x 44.1 in)
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Painting ID:: 94469
Coronation portrait of George IV
1821(1821)
Medium oil on canvas
Dimensions 289.6 x 200.7 cm (114 x 79 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: | John varley jnr | abstract composition | Giuseppe Recco | Jusepe Martinez | Luca Giordano |
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