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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 innkee
Unfinished self-portrait, c. 1825
An early pastel portrait of Maria Linley
Portrait of Queen Charlotte (1789). Lawrence's first royal commission: Queen Charlotte, wife of George III
Lawrence exhibited in 40 Royal Academy annual exhibitions.
Princess Charlotte of Wales was the only child of George, Prince of Wales, and Caroline of Brunswick. She was expected to ascend the British throne after the deaths of her grandfather, George III, and
Thomas Lawrence
…Lamb he also painted. The King commissioned portraits of his daughter-in-law Caroline, the estranged wife of the Prince of Wales; and his granddaughter Charlotte. Lawrence stayed at Montagu House, the princess's residence in Blackheath, while he was painting the portraits and thus became implicated in the "delicate…
Portrait of Princess Charlotte of Wales (1817)
Charlotte as a young girl
Caroline tuning the harp beside Charlotte in 1800. Caroline was later accused of having an affair with the artist Sir Thomas Lawrence while he was painting the portrait.
Charlotte in 1807, aged 11