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Henry Lawrence is best remembered as ‘Lawrence of Lucknow’ for organizing the defence of the Residency at Lucknow during the Indian Mutiny (1857–1859). He died there on 4 July 1857 from wounds received during the siege. Commissioned into the Bengal Artillery in 1822, Lawrence arrived in India in 1823. The following year he took part in the capture of Arakan, Burma, but in 1826 he succumbed to malarial fever. He returned home to England on sick leave, and there sat for this portrait. Lawrence returned to India in 1829 and rose through the civil service to become chief commissioner and agent to the governor-general in Oudh at Lucknow in March 1857. An able administrator, Lawrence was also an influential writer and military reformer who became a legend in his own lifetime.
Title
Lieutenant (later Brigadier-General Sir) Henry Montgomery Lawrence (1806–1857)
Date
c.1828
Medium
oil on canvas
Measurements
H 60.3 x W 50.8 cm (E)
Accession number
NAM. 2000-04-129
Acquisition method
bequeathed by Sir John Lawrence, 2000
Work type
Painting
