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 His work became a unique historical document.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 "Portrait of Sir Harford Jones Brydges 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 Lieutenant-General Sir Thomas Graham, K.B., Later 1st Baron Lynedoch 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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.jpg "Arthur Wellesley by Thomas Lawrence")
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 - (MeisterDrucke-16801).jpg "Portrait of Mary Anne Bloxam (later Mrs. Frederick H. Hemming) 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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_-_(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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 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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.jpg "Queen Charlotte, 1789-90, Wife of George III by Thomas Lawrence")
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.jpg "Benjamin West, President of the Royal Academy by Thomas Lawrence")
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_Wenzel_prince_de_Metternich_(1773-1859)_Homme_poli_-_(MeisterDrucke-1313705).jpg "Portrait of Prince Klemens Wenzel von Metternich 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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.jpg "Portrait of Edward Venables-Vernon-Harcourt by George Henry Phillips")
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.jpg "Portrait of Amelia Anne, Marchioness of Londonderry by Thomas Lawrence")
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.jpg "Portrait of Francis II Joseph Charles, Holy Roman Emperor (Francis 1st Emperor of Austria) by George Henry Phillips")
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.jpg "Lady Maria Conyngham died 1843, ca. 1824-25 by Thomas Lawrence")
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 - (MeisterDrucke-302324).jpg "Portrait of Mikhail Semyonovich, Count Vorontsov 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 "Portrait of Samuel Woodburn, c.1820 by Thomas Lawrence")
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.jpg "Portrait of Eleanor, Lady Wigram, 1815-16 by Thomas Lawrence")
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 from National Portrait Gallery volume IV published c1835 - (MeisterDrucke-92301).jpg "William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne, Engraved by Samuel Freeman, from")
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.jpg "Portrait of Sir Francis Baring, with His Brother and His Son-in-Law by Edward McInnes")
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.jpg "Portrait of George Hamilton-Gordon, The Earl of Aberdeen KJ, Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs by Edward McInnes")
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.jpg "Henry Peter Brougham, 1st Baron Brougham and Vaux, engraved by H. Robinson, from")
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.jpg "Francis Charles Seymour Conway, 3rd Marquess of Hertford and Yarmouth, Engraved by William Holl, from")
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.jpg "Priscilla, Lady Burghesh, Holding Her Son, the Hon. George Fane by Thomas Lawrence")
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.jpg "Portrait of Harriet, Countess Gower, and her Daughter by Samuel Cousins")
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.jpg "Robert Stewart Lord Castlereagh, 2nd Marquess of Londonderry, engraved by G. Adcock, from")
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.jpg "Thomas Graham (engraved by H. Meyer) from")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-1558357).jpg "Clemens Lothar Wenzel, Prince Metternich (1773-1859) by Thomas Lawrence")
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.jpg "Portrait of William Lamb, Viscount Melbourne by Edward McInnes")
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.jpg "The Princess Charlotte (from the picture in the Royal Collection) 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 "Her Royal Highness The Princess Charlotte by Thomas Lawrence")
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.jpg "Portrait of Maria II of Portugal, Queen of Portugal by Thomas Lawrence")
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.jpg "Portrait of Philadelphia Hannah, Viscountess Cremorne by Thomas Lawrence")
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.jpg "The Austrian Aristocrat Princess Pauline de Metternich by Thomas Lawrence")
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.jpg "Portrait of Sir Nicholas Vansittart, 1st Baron Bexley, 1825 by Thomas Lawrence")
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_half-length_seated_(pencil_black_white_-_(MeisterDrucke-890128).jpg "Portrait of George Canning, M.P. (1770-1827), Half-Length, Seated by Thomas Lawrence")
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.jpg "Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington by Thomas Lawrence")
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_ne_Bencke_-_(MeisterDrucke-1654587).jpg "Portrait of Princess Dorothea von Lieven (Daria Khristoforovna Lieven), née Benckendorff (1785-1857) by Thomas Lawrence")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-1370841).jpg "Portrait of Henry Dundas by Edward McInnes")
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.jpg "Edward Law, 1st Baron Ellenborough, engraved by G. Parker, from")
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.jpg "Francis Osborne, 5th Duke of Leeds by Thomas Lawrence")
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.jpg "Portrait of Charles William Vane Dressed as Charles William Stewart by William Henry Simmons")
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.jpg "Portrait of Sir Edward Pellew, Lord of Exmouth by Thomas Lawrence")
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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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_-_(MeisterDrucke-1367982).jpg "Portrait of Elizabeth Leveson-Gower (Elizabeth Countess Grovenor) by Samuel Cousins")
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_c1825_(oil_on_canvas)_-_(MeisterDrucke-900012).jpg "The Duchess of Berry, c.1825 by Thomas Lawrence")
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_and_his_second_wife_Eliza_(17489-_-_(MeisterDrucke-900602).jpg "Portrait of John Julius Angerstein and his Second Wife Eliza by Thomas Lawrence")
_and_his_second_wife_Eliza_(17489-_-_(MeisterDrucke-900602).jpg)
_oi_-_(MeisterDrucke-1109638).jpg "Portrait of the Painter Johann Heinrich Fussli by Thomas Lawrence")
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.jpg "Portrait of Elizabeth, Marchioness Conyngham by Thomas Lawrence")
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.jpg "Portrait of Lady Beresford, Seated, Half-Length in a Black Dress Decorated with a Rose by Thomas Lawrence")
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_from_National_Por_-_(MeisterDrucke-94143).jpg "Sir George Murray, engraved by Henry Hoppner Meyer, from")
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.jpg "Portrait of Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington, c.1821 by Thomas Lawrence")
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 - (MeisterDrucke-77188).jpg "Portrait of Charles Grey, Earl Grey by Thomas Lawrence")
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.jpg "The Right Hon John George Lambton, Baron Durham 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 "Henry Petty-Fitzmaurice, Engraved by H. Cook, from")
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.jpg "Portrait Of Miss Julia Beatrice Peel by Thomas Lawrence")
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.jpg "Portrait of Thomas, 1st Viscount Cremorne 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 "Portrait of William Grant by Edward McInnes")
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.jpg "Portrait of Edward Law, 1st Baron Ellenborough, M.P. by Thomas Lawrence")
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.jpg "John Philip Kemble in the role of")
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 1822 - (MeisterDrucke-193133).jpg "Portrait of Duke Armand-Emmanuel de Richelieu by Thomas Lawrence")
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.jpg "Self Portrait by Thomas Lawrence")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-905975).jpg "Portrait of Sir John Beckett by Thomas Lawrence")
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_(1741-1825)_Painting_by_Sir_Tho_-_(MeisterDrucke-985520).jpg "Portrait of the Painter Henri Fussli (or Fuseli) (1741-1825). Painting by Sir Thomas Lawrence (1769-1830) by Thomas Lawrence")
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.jpg "George IV, King of Great Britain and Ireland, c1814 by Thomas Lawrence")
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_from_Illustrations_of_English_and_Scottish_History_Volume_-_(MeisterDrucke-95889).jpg "George IV from `Illustrations of English and Scottish History")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-1371047).jpg "Portrait of Elizabeth Black by George Henry Phillips")
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 from National Portrait Gallery volume III published c1835 - (MeisterDrucke-55963).jpg "Nicholas Vansittart, engraved by T.A. Dean from")
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.jpg "Admiral Sir Edward Pellew, c.1810 by Thomas Lawrence")
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.jpg "Portrait of Prince Frederick Augustus, Duke of York and Albany 1763-1827 by Thomas Lawrence")
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.jpg "William Pitt the Younger by Thomas Lawrence")
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.jpg "Portrait of Admiral Sir Charles Paget by Thomas Lawrence")
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.jpg "Frederick John Robinson, 1st Earl of Ripon, engraved by J. Jenkins, from")
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.jpg "Portrait of John Kemble as Hamlet, standing full-length in a Landscape, wearing a cape and holding a skull by Thomas Lawrence")
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.jpg "Portrait of George Nugent Grenville, Lord Nugent 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 "Henry William Paget, 1st Marquis of Anglesey by Thomas Lawrence")
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.jpg "Portrait of Mrs. John Allnutt by Thomas Lawrence")
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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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.jpg "Robert Banks Jenkinson, 2nd Earl of Liverpool by Thomas Lawrence")
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 and his Second Wife El - (MeisterDrucke-287918).jpg "Mr John Julius Angerstein and His Second Wife, Eliza Payne by Thomas Lawrence")
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_(unfi_-_(MeisterDrucke-417105).jpg "A Portrait of a Man, possibly William Eden, 1st Lord Auckland, MP (unfinished) by Thomas Lawrence")
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.jpg "Portrait of Milady Emily Harriet Wellesley-Pole Lady Raglan 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 "George James Welbore Agar-Ellis, later 1st Lord Dover, c.1823-24 by Thomas Lawrence")
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.jpg "Bust Portrait of Susan Bloxam, Turned in Profile to Left, 1818 by Thomas Lawrence")
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 - (MeisterDrucke-189789).jpg "John Fane, 10th Earl of Westmorland by Thomas Lawrence")
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.jpg "Henry William Paget, 1st Marquess of Anglesey, Engraved by Samuel Freeman by Thomas Lawrence")
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 from National Portrait Gallery volume IV published c1835 - (MeisterDrucke-97109).jpg "John George Lambton, 1st Earl of Durham, engraved by John Cochran, from")
 from National Portrait Gallery volume IV published c1835 - (MeisterDrucke-97109).jpg)
.jpg "Portrait of Lucy Lawrence, the artist")
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