# Two Studies of a Right Hand

**Thomas Lawrence** (English, 1769–1830)  
July 26, 1800  
Red and black chalk on gray wove paper  
35 × 24 cm (13 13/16 × 9 1/2 in.)

Courtesy of the Art Institute of Chicago, 2019.759. [The museum's record](https://www.artic.edu/artworks/249662).

## About this work

Thomas Lawrence painted this (July 26, 1800), aged 31. It is now at the Art Institute of Chicago.

### What you’re looking at

A work made of red and black chalk on gray wove paper.

_Description from the Art Institute of Chicago._

### How it was made

- **Chalk.** Natural black, red and white chalks. Used together on toned paper they could give the warmth of flesh with very little effort, and they were favourites for studies from life.

### [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: Drawing and Watercolor
- Culture: England
- The artist was 31
- Real size: about 14 × 9½ in (35 × 24 cm). The 11 × 14 in print is close to life size.
- Century: 18th century
- Colour: brown
- Rights: public domain (CC0 1.0); free to use for any purpose.

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