George Romney

British, 1734 - 1802

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English painter (1734-1802)

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George Romney, The Blindfolding of Cupid, after 1797, pen and brown ink on laid paper, Gift of William B. O'Neal, 1995.52.149

The Blindfolding of Cupid

George Romney · after 1797 · pen and brown ink on laid paper ·  Accession ID  1995.52.149

George Romney, Major-General Sir Archibald Campbell, 1790-1792, oil on canvas, Timken Collection, 1960.6.31

Major-General Sir Archibald Campbell

George Romney · 1790-1792 · oil on canvas ·  Accession ID  1960.6.31

George Romney, Study for "The Deluge", 1790s, graphite on wove paper, Gift of William B. O'Neal, 1995.52.153

Study for "The Deluge"

George Romney · 1790s · graphite on wove paper ·  Accession ID  1995.52.153

George Romney, Mrs. Alexander Blair, 1787-1789, oil on canvas, Widener Collection, 1942.9.77

Mrs. Alexander Blair

George Romney · 1787-1789 · oil on canvas ·  Accession ID  1942.9.77

George Romney, A Study of Miranda for "The Tempest", c. 1786, pen and black ink with gray wash over graphite on laid paper, Gift of William B. O'Neal, 1995.52.151

A Study of Miranda for "The Tempest"

George Romney · c. 1786 · pen and black ink with gray wash over graphite on laid paper ·  Accession ID  1995.52.151

George Romney, Lady Hamilton Playing a Lyre, c. 1785, pen and brown ink with brown wash over black chalk on wove paper, Julius S. Held Collection, Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund, 1984.3.55

Lady Hamilton Playing a Lyre

George Romney · c. 1785 · pen and brown ink with brown wash over black chalk on wove paper ·  Accession ID  1984.3.55

George Romney, The Infant Shakespeare Nursed by Comedy and Tragedy, 1783, pen and brown ink on laid paper, Gift of William B. O'Neal, 1995.52.152

The Infant Shakespeare Nursed by Comedy and Tragedy

George Romney · 1783 · pen and brown ink on laid paper ·  Accession ID  1995.52.152

George Romney, Sir William Hamilton, 1783-1784, oil on canvas, Ailsa Mellon Bruce Collection, 1970.17.133

Sir William Hamilton

George Romney · 1783-1784 · oil on canvas ·  Accession ID  1970.17.133

George Romney, Lady Arabella Ward, 1783-1788, oil on canvas, Widener Collection, 1942.9.78

Lady Arabella Ward

George Romney · 1783-1788 · oil on canvas ·  Accession ID  1942.9.78

Shown from the waist up in front of a loosely painted landscape, a young woman with pale skin, flushed cheeks, and light brown hair curling softly around her face and neck turns her head to look at us from over her shoulder in this vertical portrait painting. Her body faces our left in profile, and she looks at us with dark brown eyes under arched brows. She has smooth, round cheeks, and her pink lips are closed. She wears a wide brimmed ivory-white, straw hat that casts a shadow across her forehead. At the front of the crown, a tawny-brown bow is set against a ribbon striped with dove gray and white. A sheer, white cape edged with feathers or fur drapes over the shoulders of her rose-pink, satin dress. Ruffles along her chest appear to be tied with fawn-brown bows. A white, textured area near the bottom edge of the canvas suggests that her hands are clasped in front of her waist in a muff. Behind her, a harvest-gold hillside rises to a band of pine-green trees along the right edge of the composition. Filling most of the background, the opalescent sky has pewter-gray clouds angling across a pale blue sky.
George Romney, Mrs. Davies Davenport, 1782-1784, oil on canvas, Andrew W. Mellon Collection, 1937.1.105

Mrs. Davies Davenport

George Romney · 1782-1784 · oil on canvas ·  Accession ID  1937.1.105

Bibliography

1809

  • Hayley, William. The Life of George Romney. Chichester, 1809.

1830

  • Romney, Reverend John. Memoirs of the Life and Works of George Romney. London, 1830.

1904

  • Ward, Humphry and William Roberts. Romney. 2 vols. London, 1904.

1953

  • Waterhouse, Sir Ellis. Painting in Britain 1530-1790. Harmondsworth, 1953: 222-225.

1957

  • Crookshank, Anne. "The Drawings of George Romney." The Burlington Magazine 99 (1957): 43-48.

1961

  • Johnston, Elisabeth. George Romney, Paintings and Drawings. Exh. cat. Iveagh Bequest, Kenwood, London, 1961.

1966

  • Irwin, David. English Neoclassical Art. London, 1966: 84-86, 160-161.

1972

  • Jaffé, Patricia. Lady Hamilton. Exh. cat. Iveagh Bequest, Kenwood, London, 1972: 11-24.

1977

  • Jaffé, Patricia. Drawings by George Romney. Exh. cat. Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, 1977.

1992

  • Hayes, John. British Paintings of the Sixteenth through Nineteenth Centuries. The Collections of the National Gallery of Art Systematic Catalogue. Washington, D.C., 1992: 229-230.