Earlier, she had published a poem about a painting entitled Portrait of a Lady, as part of her Poetical Sketches of Modern Paintings in The Troubadour (1825). A description of Mr Tite Barnacle of the Circumlocution Office as someone who "seemed to have been sitting for his portrait to Sir Thomas Lawrence all the days of his life" is one of 25 references to art in Charles Dickens' 1857 novel Little Dorrit. In his 1895 play, An Ideal Husband, Oscar Wilde introduces Lord Caversham with a stage direction that describes him as "[r]ather like a portrait by Lawrence". In the 1943 film The Man in Grey, Lawrence appears in one scene and is played by the actor Stuart Lindsell. Gallery See also English school of painting Notes References D Goldring, 1951, Regency portrait painter: the life of Sir Thomas Lawrence, P.R.A. London: Macdonald. M Levey, 2005, Sir Thomas Lawrence. New Haven and London: Yale University Press. External links Thomas Lawrence: Regency Power and Brilliance exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery Thomas Lawrence exhibition catalogs "Gainsborough's forgotten rival is recognised at last" Jerome Taylor, The Independent, 5 August 2010 "Thomas Lawrence: the new romantic – review" Richard Holmes reviews the National Portrait Gallery exhibition, The Guardian, 16 October 2010 , engraved by William Humphrys for The Bijou annual for 1828 with a poem by Felicia Hemans. , vignette to title page of The Easter Gift, 1832, engraved by W. Humphreys, for combination with Letitia Elizabeth Landon's poem on page 1 of the album. , an engraving by C J Wagstaff of Lawrence's portrait for Fisher's Drawing Room Scrap Book, 1832 with a poetical illustration by Letitia Elizabeth Landon. , an engraving by William Thomas Fry of Lawrence's portrait in Fisher's Drawing Room Scrap Book, 1833 with a poetical illustration by Letitia Elizabeth Landon. , an engraving by John Cochran of Lawrence's portrait in Fisher's Drawing Room Scrap Book, 1833 with a poetical illustration by Letitia Elizabeth Landon. , an engraving by J. C. Edwards of Lawrence's painting in The Amulet annual for 1833, with a poetical illustration by Letitia Elizabeth Landon. , an engraving by G Adcock of Lawrence's portrait in Fisher's Drawing Room Scrap Book, 1834 with a poetical illustration by Letitia Elizabeth Landon. 1769 births 1830 deaths 18th-century English painters 19th-century English painters 18th-century English male artists 19th-century English male artists English male painters Artists from Bristol English romantic