Discover painter, watercolorist, manufacturer of gouaches Thomas Lawrence

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: Lawrence, Thomas (Sir)

Qualifications: painter, watercolorist, manufacturer of gouaches, court painter, pastelist, draftsperson, drawing collector, print collector
since 1792 court painter as successor of Reynolds

Nationality/school: English

Born: Bristol (England) 1769-04-13
possibly born on 13 April; baptized on 4 May (Albinson 2010)

Deceased: London (England) 1830-01-07

See also In this field, you will find references to names of groups or to the artists that made/make up groups. You may also come across references to other artists if there was/is question of collaboration without a joint name. This is the case, for instance, with artists who rendered parts of works by other artists (such as with P.P Rubens and J. Brueghel I).

Robson, Thomas

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9 hits in RKDimages as artist
91 hits in RKDimages as provenance
24 hits in RKDlibrary as subject

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Biographical information

Period of activity: 1780 - 1830

Education: autodidact

Active in

Bath (Engeland) 1780 - 1787
at eleven, Lawrence's work as a pastelist and draftsman becomes the main source of income for the family (Albinson 2010)
Londen (Engeland) 1787 - 1818
Aken 1818
stayed here since September of that year to leave for Vienna in December (Garlick, Rothenstein 1965)
Wenen (stad) 1818 - 1819
since December 1818 (Garlick, Rothenstein 1965)
Rome 1819 - 1820
Spent a month in Florence on the return trip to England in early 1820 (Albinson 2010)
Londen (Engeland) 1820 - 1825
Parijs 1825 - 1826
sent to Paris by George IV to portray Charles X and the Dauphin
Londen (Engeland) 1826 - 1830

born in

active in

died in

Connections with other artists

Pupil of This field mentions the names of teachers or masters. What is at issue are the teachers who made a significant contribution to the development of a students, as opposed to every instructor they ever had. See also the 'Education' field.: Hoare, William
Teacher of This field mentions the names of pupils. What is at issue are the pupils who were significantly influenced by a teacher as opposed to every student someone ever had. See also the 'Education' field.: Amerling, Friedrich von
Barber, Thomas (I)
Bennett, William Mineard
Carpenter, Margaret Sarah
Cary, Francis Stephen
Etty, William
Evans, Richard
Hargreaves, Thomas
Harlow, George Henry
Howard, Frank
Hurlstone, Frederick Yeates
King, John Duncan
Lane, Samuel
Rothwell, Richard
Simpson, John
Ward, George Raphael
Wyatt, Henry
Influence on This field specifies the artists influenced by the artist in question, without there being question of an educational setting or servile following.: Beechey, William (Sir)
Chinnery, George
Collyer, Joseph
Danloux, Henri Pierre
Oliver, Archer James
Rochard, Simon Jacques
Shee, Martin Archer (Sir)
Sully, Thomas

Subjects This field specifies the various subject categories or genres that constitute the oeuvre of the artist in question. The contents of this field are generally based more on the documentation available at the RKD than on the literature.: figure study (main subject), genre, landscape (genre), portrait, portrait, portrait, self-portrait, group portrait, Christian religious scene, still life

Member of

Royal Academy of Arts (Londen)
exhibiting since 1788, member since 1794
Accademia Nazionale di San Luca (Rome)
honorary member from 1816
Florence Academy of Art
since 1820

Literature

Literature in RKDLibrary: 24 hits in RKDlibrary as subject

Thieme/Becker 1907-1950 , vol. 22 (1928), p. 482
Grant 1970 , p. 114-115
Waterhouse 1981 , p. 219-220
Witt Checklist 1995 , p. 283 (as: Lawrence, Sir Thomas)
Stewart/Cutten 1997 , p. 299-300
Bénézit 1999 , vol. 8, p. 359
Saur 1999-2000
Albinson 2010 , p. 13-21
Reist 2015 , passim
Robbins 2016 , p. 72-78 (about some paintings in the collection of Thomas Lawrence)

A. Benza, J. Blanc, 'Thomas Lawrence. Regency power and brilliance', Kunstchronik 64 (2011), no. 8, p. 419-424
N. Penny, 'The fate of the "Lawrence Gallery": Samuel Woodburn and the National Gallery', The Burlington Magazine 164 (December 2022), p. 1234-1251

AKLONLINE (februari 2011)

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Project: Marques de Collections (F. Lugt)

External links: Lugt (Marques de Collections) no. L.2445
Lugt (Marques de Collections) no. L.2446

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Creation date: 1992-01-12; Last modified date: 2023-06-19

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