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Sir Thomas Lawrence was an English painter who served as 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. At age ten, having moved to Bath, he was supporting his family with his pastel portraits.
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Born 13 April 1769 · Died 7 January 1830 · Q312096
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“I have never been extravagant nor profligate in the use of money. Neither gaming, horses, curricles, expensive entertainments, nor secret sources of ruin from vulgar licentiousness have swept it from me”
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The National Portrait Gallery held a retrospective exhibition of Lawrence's work
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Sir Walter Armstrong, who was not a great admirer of Lawrence, published a monograph
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Before another biography of Lawrence appeared by Lord Ronald Gower
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Died 1830-01-07.
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Missed only two of the annual exhibitions: in 1809, protesting how his paintings had been displayed; and in 1819, because he was abroad
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Career landmark: President of the Royal Academy of Arts (1820–1830).
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The prince commissioned Lawrence to paint a portrait of his daughter Princess Charlotte, who was pregnant with her first child
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Lawrence was acknowledged as the country's foremost portrait painter
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Acquired the generous patronage of the Prince Regent, was sent abroad to paint portraits of allied leaders for the Waterloo Chamber at Windsor Castle, and is particularly remembered as the Romantic portraitist of the
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Career landmark: court painter (1792).
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Born 1769-04-13.
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