1830
From the collection of Cleveland Museum of Art
Dominant colour
Death Mask of Sir Thomas Lawrence is a 1830 by Richard James Lane, a Romanticism work, held at Cleveland Museum of Art.
This image shows three views of a face: front, profile, and side. The skin looks smooth but slightly worn, with a calm expression and closed eyes. The lines are simple, almost like a sketch, and the edges fade softly. These are casts of a person’s face after they died, called death masks. They were sometimes made to remember famous people. Want to see more? Check out The Cleveland Museum of Art.
Richard James Lane was a prolific British engraver and lithographer. The National Portrait Gallery has some 850 lithographs of his portraits and figure studies, done between 1825 and 1850. The images include portraits…
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