page_title: William Lawranson
section_title: Works
hierarchical_section_title: William Lawranson / Works
caption_attribution_description: English: Portrait of Ann Catley (1745–1789), English singer and actress, as Euphrosyne in Comus by John Milton.
context_page_description: William Lawranson or Lawrenson was an English painter and engraver.
context_section_description: Lawranson first exhibited with the Incorporated Society in 1762, sending a portrait. In 1763 and 1764 he sent portraits to the Free Society of Artists, but in 1766 returned to the Incorporated Society and continued to exhibit there till 1772. He sent mostly crayon portraits, including in 1771 one of William Smith the actor as Iachimo, which he engraved himself in mezzotint, and in 1769 one of Sophia Baddeley. From 1774 till 1780 he exhibited at the Royal Academy.
  Many of Lawranson's pictures were engraved, including:
  Ann Catley as "Euphrosyne", by Robert Dunkarton;
  Signora Giovanna Sestini, the opera singer, by John Jones;
  Benjamin West by William Pether;
  Sir Eyre Coote by J. Walker; and
  A Lady Haymaking, Palemon and Lavinia, Rosalind and Celia, Cymon and Iphigenia by John Raphael Smith.
caption: Portrait of Ann Catley, engraving after William Lawranson
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