Thomas Lawrence Paintings In Neu Pinakothek In Munich Editorial Photo

Sir Thomas Lawrence 13 April 1769 – 7 January 1830 was a leading English portrait painter and the fourth president of the Royal Academy.nLawrence was a child prodigy. He was born in Bristol and began drawing in Devizes, where his father was an innkeeper. At the age of ten, having moved to Bath, he was supporting his family with his pastel portraits. At eighteen he went to London and soon established his reputation as a portrait painter in oils, receiving his first royal commission, a portrait of Queen Charlotte, in 1790. He stayed at the top of his profession until his death, aged 60, in 1830.