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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 .
The Portrait of Julia, Lady Peel is an 1827 portrait painting by the English artist Sir Thomas Lawrence depicting Julia Peel, the wife of the politician Sir Robert Peel. [1] She married Peel in 1820. When she sat for Lawrence her husband was Home Secretary and he later went on to serve for two spells as Prime Minister.
Portrait of Lady Maria Conyngham is an 1825 portrait painting by the British artist Sir Thomas Lawrence. It depicts Maria Conyingham, the younger of two daughters of the Anglo-Irish aristocrat Henry Conyngham, 1st Marquess Conyngham and his wife Elizabeth. Her mother was the mistress of George IV from 1820. [1]
Portrait of Napoleon II is an 1819 portrait painting by the British artist Thomas Lawrence depicting Napoleon II, the young son of the deposed French Emperor Napoleon and his wife Marie Louise, a member of the Austrian royal family.
Portrait of Queen Charlotte is a 1789 portrait painting by the English artist Thomas Lawrence of the British queen Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz. Lawrence had emerged as a child prodigy and had been painting society portraits in Bath for a number of years before relocating to London. Lawrence was twenty when he painted Queen Charlotte.
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 ...
Thomas Edward Lawrence was born on 16 August 1888 in Tremadog, Carnarvonshire, [5] in a house named Gorphwysfa, now known as Snowdon Lodge. [6] [7] His Anglo-Irish father Thomas Chapman had left his wife Edith, after he had a first son with Sarah Junner, who had been governess to his daughters. [8]
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