King William IV (1765-1837) Reigned 1830-1837

Location

Country: UK
City: London
Place: Government Art Collection

Sir Thomas Lawrence was born in Bristol; the son of a supervisor of excise. In 1773 the family moved to Wiltshire to run a coaching inn but financial difficulties led them to move again to Bath, where Lawrence first worked as a portraitist. He may have had lessons from William Hoare, before enrolling at the Royal Academy schools in 1787. Aged 20, he received a royal commission for portraits of Queen Charlotte (1789-90) and Princess Amelia (1789). At 23 he replaced Reynolds as Painter-in-Ordinary and at 25, became a Royal Academician. Despite such success, he never escaped crippling debt. In 1815 he was knighted and commissioned to paint the Waterloo Chamber series of portraits. He replaced West as President of the Royal Academy in 1820.
Thomas Hodgetts was a London-based landscape painter and mezzotint engraver of portraits and landscapes. He exhibited ten works at the Royal Academy, two at the British Institution and eleven at the Society of Artists in Suffolk Street, London.

People

William IV (1765 - 1837)

Places

Subjects

paper (as Subject), royal portrait, male portrait, 19th century costume, dress coat, trousers, hat, coat of arms, medal, King, column

Materials & Techniques

mezzotint

Artist

Sir Thomas Lawrence (1769 - 1830)
Thomas Hodgetts

Title

King William IV (1765-1837) Reigned 1830-1837

Date

published September 1831

Medium

Mezzotint

Acquisition

Presented by Sir Nigel Ronald, January 1954

GAC number

15646