Thomas Lawrence: Regency Power and Brilliance June 2, 2011

The Yale Center for British Art will be the only North American venue for a landmark retrospective of the great Regency painter, Thomas Lawrence (1769-1830). This exhibit will showcase outstanding works by the most important British portrait painter of his generation. It will also explore the development of Lawrence's career as one of the most celebrated and influential artists in Europe in the early nineteenth century. Organized jointly with the National Portrait Gallery, London, the exhibition will feature more than fifty stunning portraits from collections around the world, including The Royal Collection, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Palace of Versailles, and The Art Institute of Chicago, as well as works from a number of private collections, many of which have never been seen by the public.