Thomas Lawrence's career began when he was only 6 years old. His father presented him as a child prodigy in his inn "Black Bear" in Devizes in England, where the young Thomas drew pencil portraits of the guests. A little later he began to paint in pastel. He had largely taught himself his drawing skills. When he turned ten, the family moved to Bath and Lawrence began an apprenticeship with William Hoare. He contributed to the family's upkeep with his chalk portraits of distinguished people in his younger years. While studying at the Royal Academy of Arts, he won the Society of Arts silver palette for a chalk drawing after Raphael's "Transfiguration." He tried his hand at history painting and also began to paint in oils. But his greatest talent remained his portraits.
Meanwhile, he lived in London and at the age of 20 was appointed to Windsor, where he painted the portrait of Queen Charlotte, which became very famous. Not only his extraordinary talent, but also his good looks and charm helped him make a name for himself early on. His reputation grew so quickly that he became a member of the Royal Academy at the age of 24. His career as the most popular portrait painter of his time took off. When Sir Joshua Reynolds died, Lawrence was given his position as court painter to King George III. His most generous patron was Prince Regent George IV, who knighted him and sent him abroad, including to Aachen and Vienna, where he produced portraits of all the important figures who had defeated Napoleon for the Waterloo Chamber at Windsor. His work became a unique historical document. Upon his return to England, he was elected President of the Royal Academy, a post he held until his death.
Lawrence was never married. He is believed to have had a prolonged affair with Caroline of Brunswick, who was one of his favorite subjects. His other love affairs, which became the subject of several books, did not end happily either. Although his paintings earned him a lot of money, Lawrence never became wealthy. A passionate art collector, he invested a lot of money in his collection of drawings, which is one of the best ever assembled. He also owned a collection of Greek sculptures known as the Elgin Marbles. He was instrumental in the creation of the National Gallery, which today owns his artwork. Through the reproduction of his portraits in engravings and etchings, they experienced widespread distribution. Lawrence works in the classical style, such as his once celebrated "Satan," are now almost forgotten. The rest of his life's work is also viewed with much criticism today. He is accused of superficiality and softness. Moreover, he was not diverse enough. Nevertheless, his reputation as the most important portrait painter of the 18th and 19th centuries remains. Lawrence died at the age of 60 at the height of his creative powers.
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.jpg "Master Charles William Lambton, 1825 by Thomas Lawrence")
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.jpg "Prince Regent, Later George IV by Thomas Lawrence")
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.jpg "Portrait of William Lock II by Thomas Lawrence")
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 of Norbury Park Surrey c1800 (oiled charcoal on canvas) - (MeisterDrucke-104942).jpg "Portrait of William Lock II of Norbury Park, Surrey by Thomas Lawrence")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-1315645).jpg "Portrait of Miss Emily Maxwell by Thomas Lawrence")
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.jpg "Mrs. Jens Wolff, 1803-15 by Thomas Lawrence")
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.jpg "Portrait of Arthur Wellesley 1769-1852, 1st Duke of Wellington, 1815-1816 by Thomas Lawrence")
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.jpg "Woman and Child by Thomas Lawrence")
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.jpg "Willem Ferdinand Mogge Muilman, President of the Bank of the Netherlands by Thomas Lawrence")
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.jpg "Portrait of Sir Harford Jones Brydges by Thomas Lawrence")
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.jpg "Portrait of Lieutenant-General Sir Thomas Graham, K.B., Later 1st Baron Lynedoch by Thomas Lawrence")
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.jpg "Arthur Wellesley by Thomas Lawrence")
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 1824 - (MeisterDrucke-106740).jpg "Portrait of Carl Maria Friedrich Ernst von Weber (1786-1826) 1824 by Thomas Lawrence")
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.jpg "Portrait of Mirza Abul Hassan Khan by Thomas Lawrence")
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.jpg "Portrait of the Fluyder Children by Thomas Lawrence")
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 - (MeisterDrucke-218025).jpg "Portrait of Sarah Siddons by Thomas Lawrence")
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 - (MeisterDrucke-64631).jpg "William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne (1779-1848) by Thomas Lawrence")
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.jpg "Portrait of a Young Girl by Thomas Lawrence")
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 - (MeisterDrucke-66242).jpg "The Children of John Angerstein by Thomas Lawrence")
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.jpg "The Duchess of Sussex by Thomas Lawrence")
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 - (MeisterDrucke-77188).jpg "Portrait of Charles Grey, Earl Grey by Thomas Lawrence")
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 1823 - (MeisterDrucke-142542).jpg "The Calmady Children, 1823 by Thomas Lawrence")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-176179).jpg "Portrait of a Lady, possibly Sarah Harriet Burney by Thomas Lawrence")
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.jpg "Sarah Goodwin Barrett Moulton: Pinie 1794 by Thomas Lawrence")
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.jpg "Portrait of Karl Maria von Weber by Thomas Lawrence")
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 - (MeisterDrucke-41378).jpg "Portrait of Sally Siddons (1775-1803) by Thomas Lawrence")
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.jpg "William Henry Cavendish-Bentinck, 3rd Duke of Portland by Thomas Lawrence")
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.jpg "Sir Francis Baring, Banker and Director of the East India Company, with his Associates by Thomas Lawrence")
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.jpg "Samuel Lysons by Thomas Lawrence")
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.jpg "A Boy, Called the Rev. Ozias Thurston Linley by Thomas Lawrence")
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 c1805 - (MeisterDrucke-225004).jpg "Lieutenant General Sir John Moore KB, c.1805 by Thomas Lawrence")
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.jpg "Portrait of Samuel Woodburn, c.1820 by Thomas Lawrence")
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_19th_centur_-_(MeisterDrucke-1004711).jpg "Portrait of Children Calmady by Thomas Lawrence")
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 - (MeisterDrucke-662358).jpg "Selina Peckwell, Later Mrs. George Grote (1775-1845) by Thomas Lawrence")
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 from National Portrait Gallery volume II published c1835 - (MeisterDrucke-110050).jpg "John Abernethy, engraved by John Cochran, from")
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 in his Garter Robes 1816 (see 151574 61203 for detail) - (MeisterDrucke-52006).jpg "The Prince Regent, later George IV (1762-1830) in his Garter Robes, 1816 by Thomas Lawrence")
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.jpg "Portrait of Lucy Lawrence, the artist")
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_engraved_by_H_Robinson_(engraving)_(bw_p_-_(MeisterDrucke-36848).jpg "Portrait of Sir Robert Peel, engraved by H. Robinson by Thomas Lawrence")
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 from the plate by William Finden (1787-1852) from National Portrait Gallery volume II published c1835 - (MeisterDrucke-70448).jpg "King George IV, engraved by Edward Scriven, from the plate by William Finden, from")
 from the plate by William Finden (1787-1852) from National Portrait Gallery volume II published c1835 - (MeisterDrucke-70448).jpg)
.jpg "Lord Granville Leveson-Gower, Later 1st Earl Granville by Thomas Lawrence")
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.jpg "Portrait of the Children of Lord George Cavendish by Thomas Lawrence")
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.jpg "Arthur Wellesley, Duke of Wellington by Thomas Lawrence")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-1367982).jpg "Portrait of Elizabeth Leveson-Gower (Elizabeth Countess Grovenor) by Samuel Cousins")
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.jpg "Lord Amherst by Thomas Lawrence")
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.jpg "Portrait of Catherine Grey, Lady Manners by Thomas Lawrence")
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_(1811-1832)_young_boy_son_of_Napoleon_I_(oil_on_c_-_(MeisterDrucke-932339).jpg "The King of Rome (Napoleon II) young boy, son of Napoleon I by Thomas Lawrence")
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.jpg "Satan as a Fallen Angel by Thomas Lawrence")
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 - (MeisterDrucke-79059).jpg "Portrait of Robert Banks Jenkinson, 2nd Earl of Liverpool by Thomas Lawrence")
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.jpg "Portrait of the Duke of Wellington by Thomas Lawrence")
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.jpg "Lady Mary Templetown and Her Son, 1802 by Thomas Lawrence")
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.jpg "Portrait of John Joseph Henry by Thomas Lawrence")
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 - (MeisterDrucke-16808).jpg "Pope Pius VII (1742-1823) by Thomas Lawrence")
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.jpg "Portrait of Frederick John Robinson, First Earl of Ripon, c.1820 by Thomas Lawrence")
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.jpg "Henry, 10th Earl and 1st Marquess of Exeter, His Wife Sarah and Daughter Lady Sophia Cecil by Thomas Lawrence")
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.jpg "John Parry, c.1825 by Thomas Lawrence")
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.jpg "Portrait of Frederick H. Hemming by Thomas Lawrence")
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_(oil_on_canvas)_-_(MeisterDrucke-1480572).jpg "Portrait of Lady Selina Meade by Thomas Lawrence")
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_(oil_on_canvas)_-_(MeisterDrucke-1128193).jpg "Captain Joseph Cotton (1745-1825) by Thomas Lawrence")
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.jpg "Portrait of a Young Woman by Thomas Lawrence")
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.jpg "Portrait Of Miss Julia Beatrice Peel by Thomas Lawrence")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-1123335).jpg "Portrait of Lady Elizabeth Conyngham by Thomas Lawrence")
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 from National Portrait Gallery volume II published c1835 - (MeisterDrucke-78515).jpg "Robert Saunders Dundas, 2nd Viscount Melville, from")
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.jpg "Master Charles William Lambton, 1825 by Thomas Lawrence")
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.jpg "Portrait of Frederick John Robinson, First Earl of Ripon by Thomas Lawrence")
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.jpg "John Philip Kemble as Hamlet, engraved by G. Adcock by Thomas Lawrence")
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.jpg "Lady Orde with Her Daughter Anne by Thomas Lawrence")
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.jpg "The Duke of Wellington by Thomas Lawrence")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-892287).jpg "The Source of the Manifold at Ilam Park by Thomas Lawrence")
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.jpg "Portrait of Matthew Robinson Boulton by Thomas Lawrence")
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.jpg "John Julius Angerstein 1736-1823 by Thomas Lawrence")
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 from National Portrait Gallery volume IV published c1835 - (MeisterDrucke-43572).jpg "Sir James Mackintosh, engraved by John Cochran, from")
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_-_Portret_van_Arthur_Wellesley_hertog_van_WellingtonThe_Duke_of_Wellington_(title_-_(MeisterDrucke-1357937).jpg "Portrait of Arthur Wellesley, Duke of Wellington by William Bromley (I)")
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_Third_Earl_of_Hardwicke_-_(MeisterDrucke-249464).jpg "Philip Yorke, Third Earl of Hardwicke by Thomas Lawrence")
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.jpg "Henry Peter Brougham, 1st Baron Brougham and Vaux, engraved by H. Robinson, from")
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.jpg "Portrait of Klemens Wenzel, Prince von Metternich by Thomas Lawrence")
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.jpg "Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington by Thomas Lawrence")
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.jpg "Bust Portrait of Susan Bloxam, Turned in Profile to Left by Thomas Lawrence")
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.jpg "Thomas Young, engraved by G. Adcock, from")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-1449882).jpg "Portrait Of A Lady by Thomas Lawrence")
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.jpg "Lady Mary Templetown and Her Eldest Son, 1802 by Thomas Lawrence")
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.jpg "Sir Robert Peel, from")
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 from National Portrait Gallery volume II published c1835 - (MeisterDrucke-74905).jpg "Sir Edward Codrington, British Admiral, Engraved by J. Cochran, from")
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.jpg "The Austrian Aristocrat Princess Pauline de Metternich by Thomas Lawrence")
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.jpg "Joseph Farington by Thomas Lawrence")
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.jpg "Portrait of Princess Clementine of Metternich by Thomas Lawrence")
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.jpg "Portrait of Princess Dorothea von Lieven Daria Khristoforovna Lieven, née Benckendorff by Thomas Lawrence")
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.jpg "Portrait of the Children of Lord George Cavendish by Thomas Lawrence")
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.jpg "Thomas Williams by Thomas Lawrence")
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.jpg "Portrait of Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington, c.1821 by Thomas Lawrence")
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_engraved_by_H_Robinson_from_National_Portrait_Gallery_-_(MeisterDrucke-101618).jpg "Samuel Lysons (1763-1819) engraved by H. Robinson, from")
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.jpg "The Calmady Children by Thomas Lawrence")
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.jpg "The Duchess of Sussex by Thomas Lawrence")
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.jpg "Head of the woman by Thomas Lawrence")
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 in his Garter Robes (detil of 61203) - (MeisterDrucke-110031).jpg "The Prince Regent, later George IV (1762-1830) in his Garter Robes (detail) by Thomas Lawrence")
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