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Thomas Lawrence
(13 April 1769 ? 7 January 1830) was an
English
portrait
painter
. He was born in
Bristol
. He was a
child prodigy
. His father was an innkeeper. When Lawrence was 10 years old he was supporting his family with his pastel
portraits
. He went to
London
when he was 18. He soon was well known as a
portrait
painter
in
oils
. His first royal
commission
was a
portrait
of
Queen Charlotte
in 1790. He became an associate of the
Royal Academy
in 1791, a full member in 1794, and president in 1820. In 1810 he received the
patronage
of the
Prince Regent
. He died at age 60 in 1830. At his death, Lawrence was the most fashionable portrait painter in Europe. He is remembered today as the Romanticism portraitist of the British Regency.
-
Alexander MacKenzie,
c.1800
-
Portrait of the Honorable Mrs. Seymour Bathurst
, 1828
-
-
Master Lambton
-
Colonel Thomas Wildman
-
Maguerite, Countess of Blessington
, 1822
- D. Goldring. 1951.
Regency portrait painter: the life of Sir Thomas Lawrence, P.R.A
. London: Macdonald.
- M. Levey. 2005.
Sir Thomas Lawrence
. New Haven and London: Yale University Press.