Editing Thomas Lawrence (section)

== In literature ==
In the 1848 novel, ''[[Vanity Fair (novel)|Vanity Fair]]'', [[William Makepeace Thackeray]] refers to "...the Lawrence portraits, tawdry and beautiful, and, thirty years ago, deemed as precious as works of real genius...".<ref>{{citation |title=Vanity Fair |year=1848 |url=https://archive.org/stream/VanityFair1848 |page=[https://archive.org/stream/VanityFair1848#page/n513/mode/2up 436]}}.</ref>

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|Charles Dickens']] 1857 novel ''[[Little Dorrit]]''.<ref>I.B. Nadel 1977 "Wonderful Deception": Art and the artist in Little Dorrit. ''Criticism'' 19(1), 17-33.</ref>

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".<ref>{{cite book |last1=Wilde |first1=Oscar |title=An Ideal Husband |date=10 October 2013 |publisher=Bloomsbury |location=London |isbn=978-1-4081-3720-8 |page=7}}</ref>

In the 1943 film ''[[The Man in Grey]]'', Lawrence appears in one scene and is played by the actor [[Stuart Lindsell]].