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Sir Thomas Lawrence PRA FRS (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 .
Thomas Edward Lawrence CB DSO (16 August 1888 – 19 May 1935) was a British Army officer, archaeologist, diplomat and writer known for his role during the Arab ...
The Funeral of Sir Thomas Lawrence is an 1830 watercolour painting by the British artist J. M. W. Turner.It depicts the funeral at St. Paul's Cathedral in London of Sir Thomas Lawrence, the President of the Royal Academy and a friend and colleague of Turner.
Thomas Lawrence Higgins (June 17, 1950 – November 10, 1994) was an American writer and gay rights activist credited with coining the term gay pride. [1] He is best known for pushing a pie into the face of anti-gay activist Anita Bryant on live television in 1977.
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Lowell Jackson Thomas (April 6, 1892 – August 29, 1981) was an American writer, broadcaster, and traveler, best remembered for publicising T. E. Lawrence (Lawrence of Arabia). He was also involved in promoting the Cinerama widescreen system. [ 1 ]
Sir Thomas Lawrence, 3rd Baronet (c. 1645 – 1714) was the 2nd Royal Governor of Maryland in 1693, elected by the Governor's Council following the death of Sir Lionel Copley, (1648-1693). He governed the colony for only a few weeks before the new royally appointed governor, Edmund Andros , (1637-1714), arrived from his trans-Atlantic trip to ...
Portrait of Benjamin West is an 1810 portrait painting by the British artist Thomas Lawrence depicting the Anglo-American painter Benjamin West. [1] Ten years later Lawrence succeeded West, on his death, as the President of the Royal Academy. [2] West had made his name on both sides of the Atlantic with his 1770 epic painting The Death of ...