This is a 1990s poster/print by Sir Thomas Lawrence titled The Calmady Children.

The Metropolitan Museum of Art.
1938 New York Graphic Society.

Emily and Laura Anne were the children of Charles Calmady of Langdon Court in Devonshire. Their portrait shown at the Royal Academy and engraved under the title 'Nature' has always been one of Lawrence's most popular works. He once described it as "my best picture -- one of the few I should wish hereafter to be known by."

SIZE: Approx. 17" x 20". 9" x 11" image size.

Sir Thomas Lawrence (13 April 1769 - 7 January 1830) was a leading English portrait painter and president of the Royal Academy.

Lawrence was a child prodigy. He was born in Bristol and began drawing in Devizes, where his father was an innkeeper. At the age of ten, having moved to Bath, he was supporting his family with his pastel portraits. At eighteen he went to London and soon established his reputation as a portrait painter in oils, receiving his first royal commission, a portrait of Queen Charlotte, in 1790. He stayed at the top of his profession until his death.

Lawrence's reputation as an artist fell during the Victorian era. Critic and artist Roger Fry did something to restore it in the 1930s, when he described Lawrence as having a "consummate mastery over the means of artistic expression" with an "unerring hand and eye". At one time Lawrence was more popular in the United States and France than he was in Britain, and some of his best known portraits, including those of Elizabeth Farren, Sarah Barrett Moulton (known to her family as Pinkie), and Charles Lambton (the "Red Boy") found their way to the United States during the early 20th century enthusiasm there for English portraits. Sir Michael Levey acknowledges that Lawrence is still dismissed by some art historians; his explanation is that "He was a highly original artist, quite unexpected on the English scene: self-taught, self-absorbed in perfecting his own personal style, and in effect self-destructing, since he left behindno significant followers or creative influence. Leaving aside Sargent, his sole successor has been not in painting, but in fashionable, virtuoso photography."

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Excellent, near mint condition with no tears, creases, or fading, just some bumps on very extreme corners. Heavy, quality paper. It was always kept flat--never rolled.