Location

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City: other locations abroad

Sir Thomas Lawrence was born in Bristol; the son of a supervisor of excise. In 1773 the family moved to Wiltshire to run a coaching inn but financial difficulties led them to move again to Bath, where Lawrence first worked as a portraitist. He may have had lessons from William Hoare, before enrolling at the Royal Academy schools in 1787. Aged 20, he received a royal commission for portraits of Queen Charlotte (1789-90) and Princess Amelia (1789). At 23 he replaced Reynolds as Painter-in-Ordinary and at 25, became a Royal Academician. Despite such success, he never escaped crippling debt. In 1815 he was knighted and commissioned to paint the Waterloo Chamber series of portraits. He replaced West as President of the Royal Academy in 1820.

People

Canning, George

Places

Subjects

paper (as Subject), male portrait, man, 18th century costume, 19th century costume, coat, cravat, Prime Minister, column, curtain

Materials & Techniques

canvas, oil, oil painting

Artist

Sir Thomas (after) Lawrence
Alfred Edmund Dyer

Title

George Canning (1770-1827) Prime Minister

Date

1950

Medium

Oil on canvas

Dimensions

height: 143.00 cm, width: 107.50 cm

Acquisition

Presented by the Dunlop Rubber Company, May 1950

Inscription

br: Edmund Dyer / after / Thomas Lawrence verso: Copied by / Edmund Dyer /50 after the original / by Sir Thomas Lawrence R.A.

Provenance

Copy of portrait by Lawrence in Christchurch, Oxford; commissioned by Dunlop Rubber Company and presented for the British Embassy, Rio de Janeiro, 1950.

GAC number

1101