Sir Thomas Lawrence (2005)

Sir Thomas Lawrence (1769-1830) was the most gifted and successful British portrait painter in the generation following Gainsborough and Reynolds, and his __ pre-eminence was publicly confirmed when he was elected President of the Royal Academy of Arts in 1820. Although he rose to fame when George III still actively ruled, he will always be associated with the Regency and the extensive, enlightened patronage he received form the Prince Regent, later George IV. Yet partly because of that association with a period and a monarch generally derided, and partly because of its bravura style, Lawrence’s work has often been dismissed as flashy and meretricious. This beautifully illustrated, eloquently written and comprehensive account reverses that view, demonstrating that Lawrence was an . intelligent, hard-working and profoundly conscientious artist.

Condition: Near fine