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Martyrdom of St. Lawrence, Titian, S. M. Assunta dei Gesuiti.
By Titian, S. M. Assunta dei Gesuiti, Venice; canvas, arched, H. 17 ft. 8 in. × 9 ft., figures larger than life; signed. Night scene; St. Lawrence stretched on an iron framework, under which is a fire fed by attendants; executioner and soldiers hold the Saint, whose legs are toward the spectator; the flames and a torch light the group, and a gleam from heaven illumines the sufferer and shows the steps of a temple, on which figures are seen. Painted about 1558. Dark with age and much repainted. Engraved by Oortman. Carried to Paris in 1799; returned in 1815.—C. & C., Titian, ii. 259; Vasari, ed. Mil., vii. 453; Filhol, x. 691; Landon, Musée, iv. Pl. 65.
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LAWRENCE, Sir THOMAS, born at
Bristol,
May 4,
1769, died
in London,
January 7,
1830. Portrait
painter,
son of a
Bristol innkeeper
who
had known
better days.
At the age of ten he took crayon
portraits at Oxford and copied historical
pictures, and before he was
twelve he had drawn Mrs. Siddons
in crayons and made his studio at
Bath a fashionable resort. He began
to paint in oils in his seventeenth
year, and succeeded so well,
in his own opinion, that he declared
himself ready to stake his reputation
against that of any painter in England.
When, however, he first exhibited
in London (1787), his vanity
received a salutary check, and feeling
the necessity of study he entered
the Royal Academy. The very next
year he achieved a success with his
portrait of Miss Farren, the actress,
afterwards Countess of Derby, and
followed it up with portraits of the
Queen and the Princess Amelia.
In 1791, through the influence of
George III., with whom he was a
great favourite, Lawrence was admitted
to the Royal Academy as supplementary
A.R.A., although under the required
age, and the next year he became
painter in ordinary to his majesty. In 1794
he was elected R.A. To these years belong
his portraits of J. J. Angerstein and Benjamin
West, the full length of Mrs. Siddons,
