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Aberdeen, detail of an oil painting by Sir Thomas Lawrence, 1828; in the collection of Viscount Cowdray Henry Peter Brougham, detail of an oil painting by Sir Thomas Lawrence; in the National Portrait Gallery, London. Thomas Campbell, detail of a portrait by Sir Thomas Lawrence; in the National Portrait Gallery, London George Canning, painting by Sir Thomas Lawrence and Richard Evans; in the National Portrait Gallery, London. Elizabeth Carter, portrait by Sir Thomas Lawrence; in the National Portrait Gallery, London Robert Stewart, Viscount Castlereagh Sir Humphry Davy Sir Humphry Davy Eldon, detail of a portrait by Sir Thomas Lawrence; in the National Portrait Gallery, London Lawrence, Thomas: portrait of Frederick Lock of Norbury Park, Surrey
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Facts

Born April 13, 1769 • Bristol • England
Died January 7, 1830 (aged 60) • London • England
Movement / Style English school

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Aberdeen, detail of an oil painting by Sir Thomas Lawrence, 1828; in the collection of Viscount Cowdray
Henry Peter Brougham, detail of an oil painting by Sir Thomas Lawrence; in the National Portrait Gallery, London.
Thomas Campbell, detail of a portrait by Sir Thomas Lawrence; in the National Portrait Gallery, London
George Canning, painting by Sir Thomas Lawrence and Richard Evans; in the National Portrait Gallery, London.
Elizabeth Carter, portrait by Sir Thomas Lawrence; in the National Portrait Gallery, London
Robert Stewart, Viscount Castlereagh
Sir Humphry Davy
Sir Humphry Davy
Eldon, detail of a portrait by Sir Thomas Lawrence; in the National Portrait Gallery, London
Lawrence, Thomas: portrait of Frederick Lock of Norbury Park, Surrey
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English painter
Dante Gabriel Rossetti, photograph by Lewis Carroll, 1863
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Rowlandson, Thomas: Comet
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The Painter and His Pug, self-portrait by William Hogarth, oil on canvas, 1745; in the Tate Gallery, London.
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English artist
J.M.W. Turner: The Fighting Temeraire Tugged to Her Last Berth to Be Broken Up, 1838
J.M.W. Turner
English painter
Joshua Reynolds: self-portrait
Joshua Reynolds
British painter
Nicholas Hilliard: A Young Man Among Roses
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English painter
Sir Peter Lely, etching after a painting by the artist.
Sir Peter Lely
Dutch painter
“View with the Roman Campagna,” watercolour by John Cozens, last quarter of the 18th century; in the Victoria and Albert Museum, London
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Thomas Hudson
English painter
Rembrandt: Self-Portrait
Rembrandt
Dutch artist
Leonardo da Vinci: self-portrait
Leonardo da Vinci
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Pablo Picasso
Pablo Picasso
Spanish artist
Edgar Degas
Edgar Degas
French artist
Peter Paul Rubens: self-portrait
Peter Paul Rubens
Flemish artist
French artist Henri Matisse
Henri Matisse
French artist
Raphael: The Grand Duke's Madonna
Raphael
Italian painter and architect
Albrecht Dürer: Self-Portrait in Furred Coat
Albrecht Dürer
German artist
Honoré Daumier
Honoré Daumier
French artist
Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres: Self-portrait
Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres
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