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LAWRIE, Alexander, artist, born in New York city in 1828. He studied in the National academy of design and the Pennsylvania academy of fine arts, and subsequently went to Europe, where he became a pupil of Leutze at Dhsseld0rf, and of Picot at Paris. His professional life has been passed chiefly in New York. Mr. Lawrie was elected a member of the National academy in 1866, and is also a member of the Artists' fund societies of New York and Philadelphia. He has made upward of a thousand crayon heads, including likenesses of Richard II. Stoddard and Thomas Buchanan Read. One of his best oil portraits is the likeness of Judge Sutherland, painted for the New York bar association. Among his best landscapes are "A Valley in the Adirondacks," and "Autumn in the Hudson Highlands" (1869).
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