TY - BOOK AU - Levey, Michael TI - Sir Thomas Lawrence SN - 9780300109986 U1 - 920.008 PY - 2005/// PB - Yale University Press KW - Art N1 - Sir Thomas Lawrence (1769-1830) was the most gifted and successful British portrait painter in the generation following Gainsborough and Reynolds, and his pre-eminence was publicly confirmed when he was elected President of the Royal Academy of Arts in 1820 ... This book is the first sustained study of the work of Lawrence to be published for many years ...--Inside front cover jacket ER -