# Anna Maria Dashwood, later Marchioness of Ely

**Thomas Lawrence** (English, 1769–1830)  
c. 1805  
Oil on canvas  
78.1 × 65.5 cm (30 3/4 × 25 3/4 in.)

Courtesy of the Art Institute of Chicago, 1951.199. [The museum's record](https://www.artic.edu/artworks/75374).

## About this work

Thomas Lawrence painted this in about 1805, aged about 31. It is now at the Art Institute of Chicago.

### What you’re looking at

A work made of oil on canvas.

_Description from the Art Institute of Chicago._

### How it was made

- **Oil paint.** Pigment ground in a drying oil, usually linseed. It dries slowly, so painters could blend on the canvas, build up thin translucent glazes, and rework a picture over weeks. Canvas replaced wooden panels in the 1500s because it is lighter and can be rolled.

### [Thomas Lawrence](https://www.ochreeditions.com/artists/thomas-lawrence)

English, 1769–1830; born in Bristol; died in London

Lawrence was a child prodigy in pastel portraiture and largely self-taught. He moved to London as a teenager, exhibited a full-length of Queen Charlotte at the Royal Academy at twenty-one, and succeeded Joshua Reynolds as Painter in Ordinary to George III. After 1815 the Prince Regent commissioned him to paint the leaders of the alliance against Napoleon for the Waterloo Chamber at Windsor Castle. He became President of the Royal Academy in 1820 and was the leading portraitist of his day.

_Written by Ochre Editions._

## Facts

- Type: Painting
- Culture: England
- The artist was about 31
- Real size: about 31 × 26 in (78 × 65 cm). The 20 × 30 in print is close to life size.
- Century: 18th century
- Subjects: portraits: female subject, dresses, flowers, jewelry, portrait, trees, white (color), nineteenth century
- Colour: brown
- Rights: public domain (CC0 1.0); free to use for any purpose.

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