Excerpt from Romney and Lawrence<br><br>This enables me to give a line of thanks to a gentle man whose labour in the following pages has caused this book to be of real value to art lovers and historians of the English school of painting. In the admirable catalogue inserted at the close of the work, Mr. Algernon Graves, the son of the well-known art dealer of Pall Mall, has compiled what will be of lasting value in the history of English art; it will also give a better idea than can the account of his life of the astonishing prodigality and energy of Sir Thomas Lawrence, whose fault it certainly was to paint too great a number of portraits.<br><br>About the Publisher<br><br>Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com<br><br>This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.