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Thomas Lawrence

1769 - 1830

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Sir Thomas Lawrence (13 April 1769 – 7 January 1830) 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. At 18, 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 1789. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Thomas Lawrence is the 569th most popular painter (down from 475th in 2019), the 1,364th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 966th in 2019) and the 17th most popular British Painter.

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Among painters, Thomas Lawrence ranks 569 out of 2,023. Before him are Wenceslaus Hollar, Jules Dupré, Theodor Kittelsen, Wolf Vostell, Charles-André van Loo, and Giovanni Battista Gaulli. After him are Mattia Preti, Jules Bastien-Lepage, Max Pechstein, Raoul Hausmann, Tsuguharu Foujita, and Princess Fahrelnissa Zeid.

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Among people born in 1769, Thomas Lawrence ranks 15. Before him are Ivan Krylov, Ferdinand III, Grand Duke of Tuscany, André-Jacques Garnerin, Ivan Kotliarevsky, Józef Elsner, and William Smith. After him are Mahmud Shah Durrani, Ernst Moritz Arndt, Barthélemy Catherine Joubert, Aleksey Arakcheyev, Duchess Charlotte Georgine of Mecklenburg-Strelitz, and Robert Stewart, Viscount Castlereagh. Among people deceased in 1830, Thomas Lawrence ranks 12. Before him are Benjamin Constant, Adam Weishaupt, Carlota Joaquina of Spain, Antonio José de Sucre, Laurent de Gouvion Saint-Cyr, and Louis I, Grand Duke of Hesse. After him are Louis Henri, Prince of Condé, Louis I, Grand Duke of Baden, Ludwig Yorck von Wartenburg, Petar I Petrović-Njegoš, Dominique Vandamme, and Princess Louise of Hesse-Darmstadt.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Thomas Lawrence ranks 1,364 out of 8,785. Before him are Clive Owen (1964), William Smith (1769), William Henry (1774), W. Montgomery Watt (1909), Adam Sedgwick (1785), and Samuel Wallis (1728). After him are Henry Royce (1863), Mary Leakey (1913), Mark Strong (1963), John Toshack (1949), George Fox (1624), and Glenn Tipton (1947).

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Among PAINTERS In United Kingdom

Among painters born in United Kingdom, Thomas Lawrence ranks 17. Before him are Louis Wain (1860), William Holman Hunt (1827), Leonora Carrington (1917), John Tenniel (1820), Richard Hamilton (1922), and Margaret Macdonald Mackintosh (1864). After him are Joseph Wright of Derby (1734), Edmund Leighton (1852), Jack Butler Yeats (1871), Thomas Cole (1801), John Martin (1789), and George Stubbs (1724).

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