Theodore Lane (1800 - 1828)

Theodore Lane

Theodore Lane was a British miniature painter, caricaturist and engraver.

Lane became known as a painter of watercolor portraits and miniatures, but his real talent was in satire. He produced a humorous series of thirty-six drawings entitled The Life of an Actor, which was published in 1825, often working on sports material, especially in collaboration with Piers Egan.

As a political pamphleteer, Theodore Lane drew a series of satirical depictions of Queen Caroline and George IV in caricature and grotesque form in 1820.