 Sir Thomas Lawrence is primarily known as Thomas (Sir) Lawrence
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Portrait of Mary, Countess of Wilton (1801-1858), three-quarter-length, seated, in a red velvet dress with a brooch, a landscape beyond
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Sir Thomas Lawrence was born in England in 1769. At the age of five he began selling crayon likenesses to the patrons of his father's tavern in Bristol; at twenty, he was the rage of London and at fifty he had painted most of Europe's royalty. He never lost a sitter because of an unflattering likeness. Reynolds had a great deal of influence on Lawrence, but with him the master's smoothness and graciousness became all too often softness and insipidity.
His most famous painting, "Pinkie", a (showing 500 of 1456 characters). |
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