# Two Studies of a Right Hand, in Britain

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

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## The work

- Date: July 26, 1800
- Medium: Red and black chalk on gray wove paper
- Dimensions: 35 × 24 cm (13 13/16 × 9 1/2 in.)
- Type: Drawing and Watercolor
- Courtesy of the Art Institute of Chicago, 2019.759
- Licence: CC0 1.0

## The artist

[Thomas Lawrence](https://www.ochreeditions.com/artists/thomas-lawrence), English, 1769–1830

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.

7 works in the collection.

## Walk on

- [More by Thomas Lawrence](https://www.ochreeditions.com/galleries/artist/thomas-lawrence?hang=749) (7 works)
- [More Georgian Britain](https://www.ochreeditions.com/galleries/style/georgian-britain?hang=749) (63 works)
- [18th-century Britain](https://www.ochreeditions.com/galleries/era/18-britain?hang=749) (42 works)

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