Nature The Calmady Children
Nature The Calmady Children (Emily, 1818 ~ 1906, an Laura Ann, 1820 – 1894) c1823 by British Painter Sir Thomas Lawrence (1769 – 1830)
This is a beautiful portrait of the Calmady sisters, Emily and Laura Anne in a playful embrace as they are sitting down on a bench and in the background we can see a forest terrain.
The painting is consider to be the embodiment of unrestrained exuberance of childhood that was a critical role in the late 18th and early 19th century of European culture.
The portrait was shown at the Royal Academy, and Thomas at one time described it as “my best picture . . . one of the few I should wish hereafter to be known by.”
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Thomas war ee vun 16 Kanner gebuer mam Thomas Lawrence a Lucy Read am Abrëll 13, 1769 a war ee vun de fënnef Kanner, déi d'Kandheet iwwerlieft hunn.
An engem fréien Alter huet den Thomas gewisen datt hien kënschtleresch Talenter huet a gouf als e Wunderkind ugesinn; déi am Alter vun 10 Joer huet seng Famill mat de Pastellportraiten ënnerstëtzt déi hien erstallt huet.
Net nëmmen war hien e selbstgeléierte Portraitist, but also a draughtsman; and would later become accomplished at dancing, fencing, boxing and billiards.
When Thomas turned 18 years old he went to London and quickly established a reputation as a portrait painter in oils, which led to him receiving his first royalty commission from Queen Charlotte (Sopia Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz 1744 – 1818) of Great Britain and Queen of Ireland; for a portrait he did of her in 1790.
From then on he would be the most fashionable portrait painter in Europe; painting portraits for the elite of society, bis zu sengem Doud an 1830 am Alter vun 60.