Sir Thomas Lawrence
Elizabeth Thynne, Countess Cawdor, d. 1866
About this artwork
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title:Elizabeth Thynne, Countess Cawdor, d. 1866
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accession number:PG 2796
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materials:Oil on canvas
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date created:Begun 1827
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measurements:71.00 x 56.00 cm (framed: 90.00 x 75.50 x 7.00 cm)
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credit line:Accepted by the Secretary of State for Scotland in lieu of inheritance tax and allocated to the Scottish National Portrait Gallery, 1987
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…
