Portrait of William Linley
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Artist | Thomas Lawrence |
Year | 1788 |
Type | Oil on canvas, portrait |
Dimensions | 76.2 cm × 63.5 cm (30.0 in × 25.0 in) |
Location | Dulwich Picture Gallery, London |
Portrait of William Linley is a 1788 portrait painting by the British artist Thomas Lawrence depicting William Linley.[1]
Lawrence was a young Bath-based society portraitist, just as his career was about to take off.[2] The Linley Family of Bath were well-known musical performers, connected with the theatre. Lawrence was a friend of William Linley who was a year younger than him. The painting may have served as an audition for his bid for a royal commission.[3] George III reputedly joked that Linley needed a haircut.[4] Nonetheless, Lawrence was soon afterwards commissioned to paint the King's wife Queen Charlotte. That painting's success at the Royal Academy's Summer Exhibition led to Lawrence's establishment as a leading society portraitist. Today it is part of the collection at Dulwich Art Gallery in South London.[5] It was given as part of a bequest by the painting's subject along with other works featuring his family.[6]
References
- ^ Levey p.77-78
- ^ https://www.dulwichpicturegallery.org.uk/explore-the-collection/151-200/william-linley/
- ^ https://www.dulwichpicturegallery.org.uk/explore-the-collection/151-200/william-linley/
- ^ Roberts p.159
- ^ https://www.dulwichpicturegallery.org.uk/explore-the-collection/151-200/william-linley/
- ^ Stourton p.232
Bibliography
- Holmes, Richard. Thomas Lawrence Portraits. National Portrait Gallery, 2010.
- Levey, Michael. Sir Thomas Lawrence. Yale University Press, 2005.
- Roberts, Jane. George III and Queen Charlotte: Patronage, Collecting and Court Taste. Royal Collection, 2004.
- Stourton, James. Great Smaller Museums of Europe. Scala, 2003.
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- Queen Charlotte (1789)
- Elizabeth Farren (c. 1790)
- Duke of Portland (1792)
- Pinkie (1794)
- Lord Hawkesbury (1796)
- Sir Edward Pellew (1797)
- Caroline, Princess of Wales and Princess Charlotte (1801)
- Princess Caroline of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel (1804)
- Sir John Moore (c. 1804)
- Lord Melbourne (1805)
- William Pitt (1807)
- George III (1809)
- Lord Castlereagh (1809)
- Benjamin West (1810)
- John Philip Kemble as Cato (1812)
- Sir Charles Stewart (1812)
- Marquess Wellesley (1813)
- Marshal Blücher (1814)
- Prince Metternich (1815)
- Duke of Wellington (c. 1815)
- Duke of York (1816)
- Duke of Richelieu (1818)
- Francis I of Austria (1819)
- Lord Liverpool (1820)
- George IV (1821)
- Mikhail Vorontsov (1821)
- Countess of Blessington (1822)
- Frederick Robinson (1824)
- Princess Sophia (1824)
- Charles X of France (1825)
- Duchess of Berry (1825)
- The Red Boy (1825)
- George Canning (1826)
- Sir Walter Scott (1826)
- Julia, Lady Peel (1827)
- Maria II (1829)
- Lord Aberdeen (1830)
- Congress of Aix-la-Chapelle
- Regency era
- Romanticism
- Royal Academy
- Waterloo Chamber
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