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Thomas Lawrence(British, 1769–1830)

Born in Bristol, Lawrence spent his childhood in Devizes, Oxford, Weymouth, and Bath. His remarkable artistic talent was recognized when he was only ten. In 1787 he moved to London and entered the Royal Academy Schools, where he received great encouragement from Sir Joshua Reynolds. Upon Reynolds’ death Lawrence was appointed Painter to the King, George III, and in 1820 he became President of the Royal Academy. Lawrence was also patronized by the King’s son, the Prince Regent — the future King George IV — who commissioned an important series of portraits of sovereigns, statesmen, and generals that hangs in the Waterloo Chamber at Windsor Castle. From 1790 to 1830, Lawrence received a steady stream of commissions, and his portraits earned him a reputation on the Continent unequaled by any earlier British painter.

Source: Art in The Frick Collection: Paintings, Sculpture, Decorative Arts, New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1996.

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Oil painting of woman wearing red and black hat and coat with fur fringe
Thomas Lawrence
Date: 1827
Medium: Oil on canvas
Object number: 1904.1.83
Oil painting of girl wearing white dress
Thomas Lawrence
Date: after 1827
Medium: Oil on canvas
Object number: 1916.1.84
Black and white print of a little girl in a landscape wearing a white dress with a wide sash an…
George H. Philips
Date: 1839
Object number: 1968.3.103
Color print of a woman in a long white late eighteenth-century style dress and a cape trimmed i…
Charles Knight
Date: 1792
Medium: Etching and stipple engraving, printed in colors on cream antique laid paper
Object number: 1978.3.109
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