Armstrong, Walter, Sir, 1850-1918 · New York, C. Scribner's sons · leaf 234
FIG. 373- DEATH OF MAJOR PIERSON. (copley.) National Gallery. PAINTING-MIDDLE PERIOD Lawrence was born in 1 769, in the same year as Wellington andperhaps Napoleon. He was a precocious genius, becoming thebread-winner of his family before he was into his teens. At theage of ten he set up as a por- … FIG. 374.—WHITE HORSE AND GROOM.(STUBBS.) National Gallery. trait painter at Oxford, movedsoon afterward to Bath, and,in his eighteenth year, estab-lished himself in London. Hissuccess was unbroken through-out life. In 1791 he waselected an A.R.A. althoughunder the statutory age ; in1794 he became…
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