Excerpt from Catalogue of an Exhibition of Early English Portraits and Landscapes Lent by Mr. John H. McFadden: April the Twenty-Sixth, Through June the Fifteenth, 1917<br><br>Sir Thomas Lawrence must also be numbered as one of the foremost of the early English portrait painters. His career is one of unbroken success. Before he was twenty, we find him well established in London as a portrait painter, and enjoying the patronage of nobility and royalty. One distinction after another came to him, and his personal popularity furthered his artistic success.<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.