A framed painting by Thomas Lawrence entitled "Sarah Barrett Moulton".

Sir Thomas Lawrence PRA FRS (13 April 1769 to 7 January 1830) was a leading English portrait painter and president of the Royal Academy. Lawrence was a child prodigy. At the age of ten, having moved to Bath, he was supporting his family with his pastel portraits. At eighteen he went to London and soon established his reputation as a portrait painter in oils, receiving his first royal commission, a portrait of Queen Charlotte, in 1790. He stayed at the top of his profession until his death, aged 60, in 1830. Self taught, he was a brilliant draughtsman and known for his gift of capturing a likeness, as well as his virtuoso handling of paint. Sarah Goodin Barrett Moulton was born on 22 March 1783, in Little River, St. James, Jamaica. She was the only daughter and eldest of the four children. Inside her family, she was called Pinkie or Pinkey. Pinkie is the traditional title for this portrait by Lawrence in the permanent collection of the Huntington Library at San Marino, California where it hangs opposite The Blue Boy by Thomas Gainsborough. These two works are the centerpieces of the institute's art collection, which specialises in 18th century English portraiture. The painting is an elegant depiction of Sarah Barrett Moulton, who was about eleven years old when painted. Her direct gaze and the loose, highly movemented brushwork give the portrait a lively immediacy.