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This image has been assessed under the valued image criteria and is considered the most valued image on Commons within the scope: Thomas Lawrence, Satan summoning his Legions, 1796–1797 – Royal Academy of Arts.
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.
In March 1814 he arrived in southwestern France following the Fall of Bordeaux to British troops. There he proclaimed the Bourbon Restoration. [2] After his father's abdication during the July Revolution of 1830 he went into exile and from 1836 to his death in 1844 was the Legitimist pretender to the French throne, styled as Louis XIX by his ...
Portrait of Archduke Charles is an 1819 portrait painting by the English artist Sir Thomas Lawrence of the Austrian general Archduke Charles, Duke of Teschen. [1] [2] [3] A member of the House of Habsburg he was the younger brother of Francis I of Austria.
Even the pope said, nope. Armbrister recalled how when he was a Lawrence kid back in the ‘80s, Pope John Paul II came to the U.S. on one of seven trips he made to the country.
Portrait of Sir John Moore is a portrait painting by the British artist Thomas Lawrence of the Scottish army officer Sir John Moore, painted between 1800 and 1804. [1] Moore joined the army in 1776 during the American War of Independence and served in multiple subsequent campaigns. He is particularly known for his Innovations in light infantry ...
Lawrence depicts the king at full-length in military uniform with swirling smoke of battle behind him. This was a reference to his participation in the recent wars, particularly during the Battle of Jena–Auerstedt in 1806 and the War of the Sixth Coalition (1813-14). He holds a plumed hat in his hand and has a scabbard at his side.
Portrait of Arthur Atherley is 1792 portrait painting by the British artist Thomas Lawrence. It depicts a young Englishman Arthur Atherley who has recently attended Eton College. [1] It is also known as Arthur Atherley as an Etonian. Atherley was around twenty when the painting was done. He is shown as an Old Etonian.