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Apr 9, 2024 · Sir Thomas Lawrence (born April 13, 1769, Bristol, Gloucestershire, Eng.—died Jan. 7, 1830, London) was a painter and draftsman who was the most fashionable English portrait painter of the late 18th and early 19th centuries.
Oct 21, 2010 · Thomas Lawrence (1769–1830) was the most famous portraitist of his day. Praised and abused by the popular press and the exhibition-going public, his controversial portraits set the standard for beauty, elegance, and glamour in the unstable period of revolution and reform through which he lived.
Sir Thomas Lawrence was a child prodigy who became the leading British portrait painter of his generation and was elected President of the Royal Academy in 1820. Born in Bristol in 1769, Lawrence entered the Royal Academy Schools aged 18 and was elected a Royal Academician just six years later.
It was so popular it was the first-ever painting to feature on a British postage stamp. Sir Thomas Lawrence, Charles William Lambton, 1825. Read about this painting, learn the key facts and zoom in to discover more.
Biography. Sir Thomas Lawrence (13 April 1769 – 7 January 1830) was an English portrait painter and the fourth president of the Royal Academy. A child prodigy, he was born in Bristol and began drawing in Devizes, where his father was an innkeeper at the Bear Hotel in the Market Square.
Apr 13, 1769 - Jan 7, 1830. Sir Thomas Lawrence PRA FRS was a leading English portrait painter and the fourth president of the Royal Academy. Lawrence was a child prodigy. He was born in...
Aug 20, 2021 · Thomas Lawrence (1769–1830) The Holburne Museum. When Lawrence drew these portraits he would have been between the ages of the brothers and therefore making his own transition from child to adult. Nevertheless, the artist's extraordinary ability to capture the likeness and psychology of each sitter is already discernible.
