File:George IV bust1.jpg

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current01:08, 6 January 2017Thumbnail for version as of 01:08, 6 January 20171,541 × 2,189 (2.91 MB)127.0.0.1 (talk)<div class="description"> <p><b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_IV_of_the_United_Kingdom" class="extiw" title="en:George IV of the United Kingdom">George IV of the United Kingdom</a></b> as the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prince_Regent" class="extiw" title="en:Prince Regent">Prince Regent</a>, circa 1814. He served as king of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Kingdom_of_Great_Britain_and_Ireland" class="extiw" title="en:United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland">United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland</a> from 1820 to 1830. The <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English_Regency" class="extiw" title="en:English Regency">Regency</a>, George's nine-year tenure as Prince Regent, which commenced in 1811 and ended with George III's death in 1820, was marked by victory in the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Napoleonic_Wars" class="extiw" title="en:Napoleonic Wars">Napoleonic Wars</a> in Europe.<br> ---- <br><a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/George_IV_of_the_United_Kingdom" title="George IV of the United Kingdom">George IV of the United Kingdom</a> (1762-1830), Regent 1811-20; reigned 1820-30. Oil on canvas, 36 in. x 28 in. (914 mm x 711 mm), purchased, 1861, on display in Room 17 at the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Portrait_Gallery_(United_Kingdom)" class="extiw" title="en:National Portrait Gallery (United Kingdom)">National Portrait Gallery</a>.<br></p> <blockquote> <b>Artist</b>: (quoted from the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Portrait_Gallery_(United_Kingdom)" class="extiw" title="en:National Portrait Gallery (United Kingdom)">National Portrait Gallery</a>)<br><p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Lawrence_(painter)" class="extiw" title="en:Thomas Lawrence (painter)">Sir Thomas Lawrence</a> (1769-1830), Portrait painter, collector and President of the Royal Academy. Artist associated with 425 portraits, Sitter in 13 portraits. </p> In 1814, Lord Stewart, who had been appointed ambassador in Vienna and was a previous client of Thomas Lawrence, wanted to commission a portrait by him of the Prince Regent (later King George IV). He therefore arranged that Lawrence should be presented to the Prince Regent at a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/lev%C3%A9e" class="extiw" title="en:levée">levée</a>. Soon after, the Prince visited Lawrence at his studio in Russell Square. Lawrence wrote to his brother that <i>To crown this honour, [he] engag'd to sit to me at one today and after a successful sitting of two hours, has just left me and comes again tomorrow and the next day.</i> The result was a drawing in the Royal Collection, this dashing oil sketch of his head in profile like a Classical god and a large portrait of him in Field Marshall's uniform.</blockquote> </div>
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