Sir Thomas Lawrence
Mary Degg, Lady Robert Manners (1737 - 1829)
About this artwork
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title:Mary Degg, Lady Robert Manners (1737 - 1829)
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accession number:NG 1522
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materials:Oil on canvas
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date created:Exhibited 1826
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measurements:138.80 x 110.50 cm (framed: 161.93 x 133.67 x 5.0 cm)
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credit line:Bequest of Mrs Nisbet Hamilton Ogilvy of Biel 1921
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photographer:Antonia Reeve
Sir Thomas Lawrence
Sir Thomas Lawrence
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…