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- Sir Thomas Lawrence
- Dr John Moore, 1730 - 1802. Physician and author
- about 1790
- PG 571
- On Display
- Scottish Art
- Sir Thomas Lawrence
- Thomas Campbell, 1777 - 1844. Poet and critic
- about 1809
- PG 1034
- Scottish Art
- Sir Thomas Lawrence
- George IV, 1762 - 1830. Reigned as Regent 1811 - 1820, as King 1820 - 1830
- about 1820
- PG 139
- On Display
- Scottish Art
Sir Thomas Lawrence (English, 1769 - 1830)
Lawrence was a child prodigy, supporting his family from boyhood by selling pastel portraits to visitors to Bath. By 1786 he had moved to London where he briefly attended the Royal Academy Schools. He rapidly established himself as a brilliant and successful portrait painter, exhibiting an astonishingly ambitious full-length of Queen Charlotte in 1790 (now at the National Gallery, London). He was knighted in 1815 and became President of the Royal Academy in 1820. His sitters - whether society beauties, theatrical stars or military commanders - embody the romantic, slightly raffish, glamour associated with the Regency period.
