Thomas lawrence

Portrait of Lady Sarah Ingestre

As you enter the RA’s new Collection Gallery, a very large (and slightly absurd) figure of Satan towers over you – in what looks suspiciously like the Tory “power stance”. Here’s the story be…

Mrs. William Chamberlain (Cornelia Mitchell of Virginia) by Sully, Thomas, American (1783-1872). Painted in 1810. Mead Art Museum at Amherst College (AC 1945.136)

Elizabeth Farren's father, George Farran, trained as a surgeon-apothecary in Ireland, but left for England and a career in the theater. He married Margaret Wright, daughter of a Liverpool brewer, and when he died in 1770 left her with three young daughters

This picture of the young Lady Selina Meade was painted during Lawrence’s six-month stay in Vienna, where he had travelled to execute a number of the celebrated full-length portraits to commemorate the allied victors over Napoleon. Commissioned by the Prince Regent, later King George IV, these portraits, which were later hung in the Waterloo Chamber at Windsor Castle, secured Lawrence’s fame throughout Europe and his reputation as the finest portraitist of his generation. [Christie’s…

Since I came back from holiday I have been very busy, helping out at an Autumn Fair in Leicestershire, meetings regarding my upcoming project with Life Coaching, have just had a weekend in Harwich attending, as an observer, a training...