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National Portrait Gallery - Lawrence

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Lawrence

Site: National Portrait Gallery (18 memorials)

WC2, Charing Cross Road

This building, 1896, designed by Ewan Christian, has 18 busts contained in medallions around the top of the facades. Starting at the east end of Orange Street and reading clockwise:
Facing north up Charing Cross Road: Chantrey, Lawrence, Reynolds, Hogarth, Roubilliac, Kneller, Lely, Van Dyke, Holbein.
Around the corner, facing east: Walpole, Clarendon, Fuller.
Facing north beside the entrance: Lodge, Faithorne, Granger.
Facing east, above the entrance are represented the three men chiefly responsible for the Gallery's existence: MacAulay, Stanhope, Carlyle.

2019: The Guardian reported on plans to move the entrance to this museum from the east side of the building round to the north side, where the Irving statue is.

2023: Londonist reported that the north entrance is now open and boasts three sets of doors etched with artworks by Tracy Emin. These show faces of 45 women, not specific or identifiable figures but, as the artist is quoted: "it's up to the viewer to discern what they feel and what they see or who they see..." Londonist sees 'The Doors' as "a direct challenge to/balancing act with the slew of Portland stone busts carved into the building’s original façade, featuring 18 men .."

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This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
National Portrait Gallery - Lawrence

Subjects commemorated i

Sir Thomas Lawrence

Portrait painter, collector and President of the Royal Academy

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This section lists the other memorials at the same location as the memorial on this page:
National Portrait Gallery - Lawrence

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Nearby Memorials

John Hunter, Leicester Square

John Hunter, Leicester Square

WC2, Leicester Square

All four of the Leicester Square busts were removed in the 2010-12 redesign of the Square - see (Hogarth bust for more information. 

1 subject commemorated, 1 creator
Morley mosaics - KEW - Octavia Hill

Morley mosaics - KEW - Octavia Hill

SE1, King Edward Walk, Morley College

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2 subjects commemorated, 3 creators
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Tot Ct Road Head 1

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The spaces between the first and second floor windows carry carved brick panels, one in each of the seven bays. Purely decorative panels ...

Shakespeare at Holborn Town Hall

Shakespeare at Holborn Town Hall

WC1, High Holborn, former Holborn Town Hall, 193-7

Above the entrance on the left "Public Library" and in the stone decorations: "1908" and "HBC" for Holborn Borough Council.  Details on t...

1 subject commemorated
Hitchcock bust

Hitchcock bust

N1, Poole Street, Gainsborough Studios

There's a suggestion in the sculpture that the face is actually a mask.

1 subject commemorated, 37 creators