Mervyn Lawrence was born the son of a photographer, William Mervyn Lawrence (1840-1931), in Dublin, Ireland on 16 September 1868. He studied at Dublin Municipal School of Art; the National Art Training School in Kensington, London; and in Paris. He subsequently worked as a sculptor and painter and between the 1890s and the 1930s exhibited at Goupil Gallery, the International Society of Sculptors, Painters and Gravers, London Salon, New Gallery, Royal Academy, Royal Institute of Painters in Water Colours and Royal Institute of Oil Painters in London; Manchester City Art Gallery; Walker Art Gallery in Liverpool; Leeds City Art Gallery; Royal Glasgow Institute of the Fine Arts; the Bristol Academy; and at the Royal Hibernian Academy in Dublin.
From c.1916, with Walter Sickert, he taught the life class at Westminster School of Art in London. Lawrence was later appointed deputy headmaster at the school under Walter Bayes.
Lawrence was elected a member of the Art Workers Guild in 1907 (resigned 1925). He was also a member of the Society of British Sculptors (resigned 1915); and the London Art Group in the 1920s.
Between c.1899-1912 he had a studio at at 1 St. Leonard's Studios St. Leonard's Terrace London, and between c.1913 and c.1925 lived at 44 Markham Square, Chelsea, London.
Lawrence died on 25 January 1961. His address at the time of his death was 21 South Park Hill Road, South Croydon, Surrey.
Text source: Arts + Architecture Profiles from Art History Research net (AHRnet) https://www.arthistoryresearch.net/
