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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.
Learn about the life and works of Thomas Lawrence, a child prodigy who became a leading portraitist of the Regency era. See his self-portrait, royal commissions, and oil paintings at Wikiart.org.
- British
- April 13, 1769
- Bristol, United Kingdom
- January 7, 1830
Lawrence was the leading British portrait painter of the early 19th century, portraying most of the important personalities of the day in his polished and flattering style. He was a child prodigy and largely self-taught; at the age of 10 he was making accomplished portraits in crayon.
Sir Thomas Lawrence was a painter and draftsman who was the most fashionable English portrait painter of the late 18th and early 19th centuries. He was the son of an innkeeper who owned the Black Bear at Devizes, where the young Lawrence won a reputation as a prodigy for his profile portraits in.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
Learn about the life and works of Sir Thomas Lawrence, a leading British portrait painter and President of the Royal Academy in the 19th century. Explore his paintings, drawings, engravings and casts in the RA Collection.
Learn about the life and work of Thomas Lawrence (1769–1830), the most famous portraitist of his day, who captured the beauty, elegance, and glamour of the Regency era. Explore his portraits of royalty, celebrities, and military heroes, as well as his drawings and studio practices.
A portrait of Charles William Lambton, a British politician and diplomat, by Sir Thomas Lawrence, a leading painter of the Regency period. Learn about the painting, its history and restoration, and see it in high resolution.
