Dublin-born landscape painter and etcher Edward Louis Lawrenson was educated at Trinity College, Dublin, which he attended from the age of 13. He first soldiered with the Connaught Rangers per his family tradition, leaving the Army in 1900 to study art in Paris under Alfons Mucha and the Netherlands under George Hitchcock. In 1903, Lawrenson settled in London opening his own studio and in 1915 in Hadley Down, Sussex. In 1914 he went to France painting in Normandy and Brittany. Lawrenson designed one of the first commemorative postage stamps for the Irish Free State to mark the opening of the Shannon Barrage in 1930. Particularly, his Mezzotint works became quite popular in his later years. He was married to paintress Charlotte Mary Rose Lawrenson, né Thompson.
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