# Portrait of David Lyon [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [LAWRENCE, Sir Thomas]() - Date: 1751-1800 - Technique: Oil on canvas, 217 x 132 cm ## Commentary Portrait of David Lyon c. 1825 Oil on canvas, 217 x 132 cm Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid This portrait dates from the artist's late period and looks back to the English portrait tradition of the 17th and 18th centuries, when England was a leading centre for the genre. The use of a landscape background was characteristic of the English school. At the same time, the portrait also falls within the Romantic tradition in the elegant bearing of the sitter and in his expression, at once haughty and melancholy, while the clothing, pose and long untidy hair are all typical of the 19th-century dandy. ## Related artworks - [Diana Sturt, Lady Milner]() - [John Fane, Tenth Count of Westmorland]() - [Margaret, Countess of Blessington]() - [Miss Martha Carry]() - [Mr and Mrs John Julius Angerstein \(detail\)]() - [Mr and Mrs John Julius Angerstein]() - [Pope Pius VII]() - [Portrait of Alexander I]() - [Portrait of Anne, Countess of Charlemont and her Son James]() - [Portrait of Canova]() - [Portrait of Klemens Wenzel von Metternich]() - [Portrait of Lady Elizabeth Conyngham]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()