Talk:Thomas Lawrence

Childhood home

Britannica 1911 (online) has Black Boar, but this is one of its notorious scanning errors. It's definitely the Bear that's meant. Old Moonraker 14:30, 31 July 2006 (UTC)

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  Self-Portrait, by Sir Thomas Lawrence, 1788
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  Thomas Lawrence, aged 8, by English School, 1777

Dcoetzee 12:00, 7 April 2009 (UTC)

National Academy of Design, New York

If anyone has a source for this I will put it back, but not in the introduction. Perhaps it could include a mention of the Benjamin West commission. "In 1827 he was elected into the National Academy of Design as an Honorary Academician." Southdevonian (talk) 08:48, 16 January 2014 (UTC)

Portrait by Thomas Lawrence or not?

Yesterday I uploaded File:Charles Tottenham Loftus by Thomas Lawrence.jpg on the basis that it was a Thomas Lawrence portrait but later I found an image, which I have now been upoaded on top of the original. However, the details for that image do not attribute Lawrence but School of John Downman instead as noted here. The eBay auction information is also still available now for you to review the claim it is a Lawrence image. Lawrence would only have been about 16 years of age but he was painting pastels at that time; Downman would have been 35 at the time of the portrait. Is anyone familiar enough with Lawrence's work to determine which is accurate? ww2censor (talk) 09:24, 20 June 2014 (UTC)

I would take what it says on ebay with a pinch of salt. There is nothing in the description to actually link it to Lawrence, and anyway nobody bid for it. They are not the same image, are they? Is one a copy of the other? I would definitely stick with school of Downman. Southdevonian (talk) 22:33, 21 June 2014 (UTC)

The eBay image appears to be a cropped down version of the portrait area of oval framed version with a slight tonal and sharpness difference. Some of what the eBay seller says support what is known about the sitter, Lawrence and the provenance, so I am not so sure it should be dismissed out of hand. I'd love to get more opinions from those familiar with the two artists work but that may actually be difficult. Thanks. ww2censor (talk) 22:52, 21 June 2014 (UTC)

Can this be added to the gallery section?

Shouldn't this file be in the gallery? File:Lady Mary Templetown and Her Eldest Son.jpg(talk) 06:20, 23 January 2018 (UTC)