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George Romney
1734-1802 England/Rococo
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Brief Biography-George Romney was born in Lancashire in 1734. His father apprenticed him to one Christopher Steele in Kendal, where he made a good living painting portraits for five guineas per half-length. In 1762 Romney went to London and was awarded twenty-five guineas for his "Death of General Wolf" by the Society of Arts. At this stage of his career, he competed with the foremost painters of the day, including Joshua Reynolds. On a visit to France in 1764, he obtained advice from Claude Vernet. His last public exhibitions were at the Free Society of Artists in 1772. After that, he ceased to show works publicly. In 1773 he went to Rome with a recommendation to the Pope and received permission to study and copy Raphael's work in the Vatican. He stayed there for two years. In 1775 he returned to London and was inundated with so much work that he painted up to four thousand portraits a year. In addition, he did countless drawings and paintings of Lady Hamilton, with whom he had a close friendship up to 1791. On his move to Hamstead Heath, he became mentally unwell and returned to his wife in Kendal, where he died in 1802. |
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the artist's
brothers

a man called
mr cross

adam walker
and his family

ann wilson
with
daughter

catherine
clemens

charles
jenkinson

charles
lennox

charlotte
lady milnes

mrs thomas
raikes

colonel robert
abercrombie

elizabeth duchess
of sutherland

elizabeth
lady blunt

james
macpherson

james
romney

john flaxman
modeling the bust

john
wesley

lady hamilton
as a bacchante

mary and
louisa kent

millicent
watson

miss
constable

miss frances
mary harford

mr and mrs
william lindow

mr
morley

mrs andrew
reid kimbell

mrs marie
jean gomm

mrs richard
pryce corbet

mrs thomas
phipps

portrait of
a lady

portrait of
a man

the countess
of warwick

thomas
greene

unknown
man

william
paley

william
watson

admiral sir
charles hardy

admiral sir
francis geary

children of
charles boone

first marquess
of stafford

general james
stuart

jane duchess
of gordon

jeremiah
miles

john walter
tempest

john wells
when a boy

lady elizabeth
hamilton

lady elizabeth
haythorne

lady hamilton
as circe

lady in a
brown robe

lady mary
beauchamp

master
ward

miss
willough

mrs
harriet greer

mrs
verelst

mrs henrietta
morris

mrs maria
fitzherbert

sarah curran
romney

vice admiral
george darby

thomas robinson
second baron

the leigh
family

vice admiral
sir hyde parker

lord
brooke

the
vernon children
