Sir Thomas Lawrence

During the early years of her first marriage, between her time in India and in Italy, Maria Graham (later MC ) met Jane Marcet and the publisher John Murray . Then or later...

This very pleasing portrait shows her with strong face and steady gaze, wearing classical dress, with pen in hand and her Epictetus volume visible. It now hangs in Johnson's House in Gough Square, London....

Lines from this poem suggested to Sir Thomas Lawrence the group portrait he entitled The Calmady Children or Mr. Calmady's Children.

SL had her picture drawn by Sir Thomas Lawrence and engraved by Ridley for reproduction, with an account of her life, in the Monthly Mirror.

Jane Haldimand was educated at home, where she read widely in both English and French. She had lessons from tutors in mathematics, astronomy, and philosophy (the last-named a close relation of modern science. Her...

Her portrait by Sir Thomas Lawrence was exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1822.Benjamin Robert Haydon was another of those who painted her.

Sir Thomas Lawrence , President of the Royal Academy , tutored Louisa Anne Twamley (later LAM ) privately in art.

The volume for 1834 had plates and paintings by Mrs Robertson , William Daniell , and Sir Thomas Lawrence . Typical subjects for illustrations were, as in other periodicals, portraits of aristocratic beauties and scenes...

The volume includes poems of natural description, of meditation, and of political comment. FON expresses delight at the election victory on 9 August 1802 (in John Wilkes's old constituency of Middlesex) of Sir Francis Burdett

In England as in Scotland MR had a wide circle of friends. They included the artists Thomas Lawrence and Henry Fuseli and the writers Samuel Rogers , Richard Sharp , and Sir James Mackintosh ...

During these years MR prided herself on being, if not a literary hostess, then a friend and supporter of authors. She sat to Thomas Lawrence in 1805 or 1806 for a striking portrait.

As a beautiful actress MR was frequently painted by artists, who included Richard Cosway , Thomas Gainsborough , Angelica Kauffmann , Thomas Lawrence , Joshua Reynolds , and George Romney . As the prince's mistress...

NRS says she has often found that my own selection of relevant detail has lighted on facts passed over as insignificant by other writers. She hopes to place her subject in a light, possibly...

While living with the Marquess of Abercorn, Sydney Owenson had her portrait drawn by Sir Thomas Lawrence .

She wrote it while a member of the Marquess of Abercorn ''s household, where she read it aloud in the evenings to less than informed criticism. As before, she and Phillips could not agree on...