'Lawrence Clavering' is an adventure novel written by A. E. W. Mason. The story unfolds by showing us a portrait of Lawrence Clavering which hangs in the lodgings of the narrator in Avignon, France. The portrait was painted by Anthony Herbert and depicts Clavering in the midst of great suffering, with a dead white face, glassy bright eyes, and a mouth half-opened in pain. Herbert told a man named George Vertue that the portrait was of Clavering and that if Vertue wanted to know more about it, he should ask Clavering himself.