[1] Ten years later Lawrence succeeded West, on his death, as the President of the Royal Academy.

[2] West had made his name on both sides of the Atlantic with his 1770 epic painting The Death of General Wolfe.

A former child prodigy, Lawrence had become one of Britain's most fashionable portraitists when he painted West, on the cusp of the Regency era.

[3] Today it is in the collection of the Yale Center of British Art in New Haven, Connecticut.

[4] Samuel Morse made a copy of the work while visiting Lawrence's studio in London, which is now in the National Academy of Design.