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Identifier: historicalportra00whea (find matches)
Title: Historical portraits; some notes on the painted portraits of celebrated characters of England, Scotland and Ireland
Year: 1897 (1890s)

Samuel Laurence  (–1884)
	Alternative names	Samuel Lawrence
	Description	British painter and portrait painter
	Date of birth/death	1812 / 1817	1884
	Location of birth/death	Guildford	London
	Authority file	: Q1404661 VIAF: 26927561 ISNI: 0000000459725495 ULAN: 500016923 LCCN: nr92022510 NLA: 35137935 WorldCat

Subjects: Portrait painters
Publisher: London, G. Bell
Contributing Library: Getty Research Institute
Digitizing Sponsor: Getty Research Institute

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F. Watts, R.A.,which contains among others the portraits ofBrowning, Tennyson, Matthew Arnold, andCarlyle. There is another portrait of Carlyle byMillais. The excellent one by Mr. Whistler,reproduced in this book, is in the Glasgow Cor-poration Gallery. Art. In the third and fourth chapters of this bookthere is a series of engravings of the chief portrait-painters from Vandyck to Lawrence. Here a fewother portraits of painters may be mentioned. There is a portrait of Holbein, by himself, atWindsor Castle, and Earl Spencer possesses a fineportrait of Sir Antonio Moro by himself. At Hampton Court there are portraits ofMytens, by himself, Cornelius Ketel, by himself,Peter Oliver, by Hanneman, Robert Walker, byhimself, Dobson and his wife, by Dobson, Lely,by himself, and several others. At the several South Kensington Exhibitionsthere were many portraits of artists. In the National Gallery are the portraits ofVandyck, by himself, Hogarth, by himself, Rey- CHARLES DICKENS, BY ARY SCHEFFER.
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W. M. THACKERAY, BY S. LAURENCE. THOMAS CARLYLE, BY J. MCNEILL WHISTLER.By permission of the Corporation of Glasgow. SCIENCE, LITERATURE, AND ART nolds, by himself, full-length of West, by Lawrence,Samuel Scott, by Hudson, Wilkie, by Phillips, andThomas Daniell, R.A., by Wilkie. The picture by Rigaud, of Reynolds, with SirWilliam Chambers the architect, and JosephWilton the sculptor, reproduced in this book, isin the National Portrait Gallery. A considerable number of valuable and interest-ing portraits of artists are preserved in the roomsof the Royal Academy at Burlington House, andone of the most valuable of these is the superbportrait of Lord Leighton by Mr. Watts. Thereare also several pictures containing groups ofartists, most of which are well known from havingbeen often exhibited. The Dilettanti Society possess a considerablenumber of portraits painted by the successivepainters who have been appointed painters to theSociety. George Knapton (1698—1778), a pupilof Richardson,

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