Funeral of Sir Thomas Lawrence

Painting by J. M. W. Turner

Funeral of Sir Thomas Lawrence

Artist	J. M. W. Turner
Year	1830
Type	Watercolour, Landscape painting
Location	Tate Britain, London

The Funeral of Sir Thomas Lawrence is an 1830 watercolour painting by the British artist J. M. W. Turner. It depicts the funeral at St. Paul's Cathedral in London of Sir Thomas Lawrence, the President of the Royal Academy and a friend and colleague of Turner. Lawrence died unexpectedly in January, and the painting captures the snow-covered landscape of his burial ceremony. Turner served as one of the pallbearers and sketched the scene from memory.^[1] It was exhibited at the Royal Academy's Summer Exhibition.^[2] It was later part of the 1856 Turner Bequest as is now in the collection of the Tate Britain.^[3]

References

^ Finley p.112
^ Shanes p.51
^ "'Funeral of Sir Thomas Lawrence: A Sketch from Memory', Joseph Mallord William Turner, exhibited 1830".

Bibliography

Finley, Gerald. Angel in the Sun: Turner's Vision of History. McGill-Queen's Press, 1999.
Hamilton, James. Turner - A Life. Sceptre, 1998.
Shanes, Eric. The Life and Masterworks of J.M.W. Turner. Parkstone International, 2012.

J. M. W. Turner

Paintings

Interior of a Romanesque Church (c. 1795–1800)
Landscape with Windmill and Rainbow (c. 1795–1800)
Diana and Callisto (c. 1796)
Fishermen at Sea (1796)
Interior of a Gothic Church (c. 1797)
Limekiln at Coalbrookdale (c. 1797)
Moonlight, a Study at Millbank (1797)
Aeneas and the Sibyl, Lake Avernus (c. 1798)
Buttermere Lake, with Part of Cromackwater, Cumberland, a Shower (1798)
Caernarvon Castle (c. 1798)
Morning amongst the Coniston Fells, Cumberland (1798)
Shipping by a Breakwater (1798)
Tivoli and the Roman Campagna (c. 1798)
View of a Town (c. 1798)
Dolbadarn Castle (1798–1799)
Self-Portrait (c. 1799)
View in Wales: Mountain Scene with Village and Castle – Evening (c. 1799–1800)
Welsh Mountain Landscape (c. 1799–1800)
A Beech Wood with Gypsies round a Campfire (c. 1800)
A Beech Wood with Gypsies Seated in the Distance (c. 1800)
Landscape with Lake and Fallen Tree (c. 1800)
View on Clapham Common (c. 1800–1805)
The Shipwreck (1805)
London from Greenwich Park (1809)
The Fifth Plague of Egypt (1810)
High Street, Oxford (1810)
Snow Storm: Hannibal and his Army Crossing the Alps (1812)
Dido building Carthage, or, The Rise of the Carthaginian Empire (1815)
Dort or Dordrecht: The Dort packet-boat from Rotterdam becalmed (1818)
The Field of Waterloo (1818)
England: Richmond Hill, on the Prince Regent's Birthday (1819)
Rome, from the Vatican (1820)
The Battle of Trafalgar (1822)
Port Ruysdael (1826)
Chichester Canal (1828)
Ulysses Deriding Polyphemus (1829)
Funeral of Sir Thomas Lawrence (1830)
Childe Harold's Pilgrimage - Italy (1832)
The Fountain of Indolence (1834)
The Golden Bough (1834)
Venice: The Dogana and San Giorgio Maggiore (1834)
The Burning of the Houses of Lords and Commons, 16th October, 1834 (1835)
Rome, From Mount Aventine (1835)
Venice, from the Porch of Madonna della Salute (c. 1835)
The Fighting Temeraire Tugged to Her Last Berth to Be Broken up (1838)
Modern Rome – Campo Vaccino (1839)
Slave Ship (Slavers Throwing Overboard the Dead and Dying, Typhoon Coming On) (1840)
Snow Storm: Steam-Boat off a Harbour's Mouth (1842)
The Blue Rigi (1842)
The Red Rigi (1842)
Peace – Burial at Sea (1842)
War. The Exile and the Rock Limpet (1842)
Light and Colour (Goethe's Theory) – The Morning after the Deluge – Moses Writing the Book of Genesis (1843)
Rain, Steam and Speed – The Great Western Railway (1844)
Sunrise with Sea Monsters (1845)
Norham Castle, Sunrise (c. 1845)
Whalers (c. 1845)
The Beacon Light (unknown)