by Jon Lackman | 15 October 2007 | Books
Reviewing Michael Levey’s book Sir Thomas Lawrence in the latest British Art Journal (VII, 3), David Platzer writes that Levey is
undoubtedly our most distinguished and accessible living writer on art … A man of generous and wide sympathies, he is fiercely opinionated and rarely if ever lukewarm in his likes and dislikes … Moreover, he is a master of narrative: in addition to his many books about painting, he is also an all-round writer, the author of novels, a memoir and biographies of Mozart and Walter Pater … [this] throroughly informed book, packed with lightly-worn erudition, should do much to restore Lawrence to the prominent rank he deserves among British painters.
