Volume 54, Number 3 · March 1, 2007
Power Portraits
By Richard Dorment
Sir Thomas Lawrence
by Michael Levey
Paul Mellon Centre for Studies inBritish Art/Yale University Press, 345 pp., $75.00
The twenty-four portraits by Sir Thomas Lawrence that now hang in the Waterloo Chamber at Windsor Castle represent an act of royal patronage unique in the history of British art. Not even Henry VIII's employment of Holbein or Charles I's of Van Dyck bears comparison with the scale of the project and the imaginative vision the future George IV displayed when he commissioned the series.
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