Schools and masters of paintings : with an appendix on the principal galleries of Europe (1888)
Radcliffe, A. G. (Alida Graveraet) · New York : D. Appleton and Co. · leaf 481
erits were so justly appreciated that he wasknighted by George IV., and appointed royal painter. Sir Thomas Lawrence, who was born at Bristol, in 1769,and died in London, 1830, won even more fashionable noto-riety. He commenced to work in crayon at ten years of age,and many accounts are given of… … i PAINTING IN ENGLAND. 407 executed his celebrated portraits of Pius VII. and CardinalGonsalvi. At home, he secured the homage of all England,and was paid at the rate of two or three thousand dollars forhis likenesses. As an artist he was distinguished by facilegrace, agreeable color, and sweet but…
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