Thomas Lawrence
English portrait painter (1769-1830) · Artists · Died at 60
Sir Thomas Lawrence was an English painter who served as 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.
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An early pastel portrait of Maria Linley
Portrait of Queen Charlotte (1789). Lawrence's first royal commission: Queen Charlotte, wife of George III
Lawrence exhibited in 40 Royal Academy annual exhibitions.
Lawrence was in love with Sarah Siddons' daughter Sally. Painting by Thomas Lawrence.
Satan summoning his Legions, 1796-1797
Portrait of the Duke of Wellington in 1815, later used on the Bank of England £5 note
Lawrence painted a Portrait of Pope Pius VII in Rome in 1819Awards
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At age ten, having moved to Bath, he was supporting his family with his pastel portraits.
Category
Artists
Type
Artist
Status
Deceased
Dates
Lived 1769 to 1830 · aged 60
