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About Thomas Lawrence
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.
Everything about Thomas Lawrence →- Occupation
- painter, portraitist, artist
- Position held
- court painter, President of the Royal Academy of Arts
- Citizenship
- United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, Kingdom of Great Britain
- Born
- April 13, 1769, May 4, 1769
- Died
- January 7, 1830