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'Charming Little Brats': Sir Thomas Lawrence's Portraits of Children

This chapter, published in 2010 by Yale University Press for the National Portrait Gallery (NPG), London and the Yale Center for British Art (YCBA) is a contribution to a book that accompanied a major exhibition that was shown at both venues. The chapter builds on Pointon’s work on portraiture (and takes into new ground research on eighteenth-century child portraiture initiated by the author in 'Hanging the Head: Portraiture and Social Formation in Eighteenth-century England', 1993). Pointon was the only invited contributor (the three editors and other authors all being curators at the NPG and the YCBA). The book was awarded the 2012 book prize in the edited/ multi-authored category by the Historians of British Art, a society affiliated to the College Art Association of America.