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Shepherd Girl. Little Bo-Peep Print by George Romney

Shepherd Girl. Little Bo-Peep

Portrait of a member of the Dashwood Family Print by George Romney

Portrait of a member of the Dashwood Family

Portrait of Miss Willoughby Print by George Romney

Portrait of Miss Willoughby

Portrait of Jane Hoskyns Print by George Romney

Portrait of Jane Hoskyns

Portrait of John Redhead Print by George Romney

Portrait of John Redhead

Portrait of Mr. Adyes Children. The Willett Children Print by George Romney

Portrait of Mr. Adyes Children. The Willett Children

Portrait of Lady Grantham Print by George Romney

Portrait of Lady Grantham

Portrait of Marianne Holbech Print by George Romney

Portrait of Marianne Holbech

Sketch of a Mother and Child Print by George Romney

Sketch of a Mother and Child

Portrait of Lady Georgiana Smyth and her Son Print by George Romney

Portrait of Lady Georgiana Smyth and her Son

Portrait of Mary Christina Conquest Lady Arundell of Wardour in Coronation Robes Print by George Romney

Portrait of Mary Christina Conquest Lady Arundell of Wardour in Coronation Robes

Portrait of Mrs. Henry Ainslie with her Child Print by George Romney

Portrait of Mrs. Henry Ainslie with her Child

Portrait of Mary Wilson Print by George Romney

Portrait of Mary Wilson

Portrait of Mrs. Marie-Jean Gomm Print by George Romney

Portrait of Mrs. Marie-Jean Gomm

Portrait of Bryan Cooke of Owston Print by George Romney

Portrait of Bryan Cooke of Owston

Portrait of Charles Lennox 3rd Duke of Richmond and Lennox Print by George Romney

Portrait of Charles Lennox 3rd Duke of Richmond and Lennox

A Mother and Child Print by George Romney

A Mother and Child

Lady Arabella Ward Print by George Romney

Lady Arabella Ward

Ann Wilson with Her Daughter Sybil Print by George Romney

Ann Wilson with Her Daughter Sybil

Portrait of John Augustus Richter Print by George Romney

Portrait of John Augustus Richter

Mrs. Davies Davenport Print by George Romney

Mrs. Davies Davenport

Portrait of Mrs. Francis Ingram Print by George Romney

Portrait of Mrs. Francis Ingram

Mrs. Thomas Scott Jackson Print by George Romney

Mrs. Thomas Scott Jackson

Sir William Hamilton Print by George Romney

Sir William Hamilton

Joseph Allen Print by George Romney

Joseph Allen

George Romney

Portrait of Emma Hart as Miranda [later Lady Hamilton]

George Romney

Portrait of John Wesley

George Romney

Portrait of Mrs. Verelst

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Portrait of Miss Willoughby

George Romney

Portrait Of Mrs Uppleby

George Romney

Portrait Of Mrs Robinson

George Romney

A double portrait of sisters, half-length, one in a black dress playing a lute, the other in a white dress holding a musical score, a landscape beyond

George Romney

A lady with a wide-brimmed hat

George Romney

A maiden with classical trophies in a landscape

George Romney

A Mother and Child

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A Portrait of Mrs. Beal Bonnell

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A shepherd boy asleep watched by his dog at the approach of a thunder-storm

George Romney

A study of two women a sketch for the Milner sisters

George Romney

Jacob Morland of Capplethwaite

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Admiral Hardy

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Admiral Orde

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Admiral Sir Francis Geary, 1709-96

George Romney

Ann Wilson with her Daughter, Sybil

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Anne, Marchioness Townshend

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Captain William Bentinck, 1764-1813

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Caroline, Countess of Carlisle

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Caroline, Duchess of Marlborough

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Charles Jenkinson, 1st Earl of Liverpool

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Charlotte, Lady Milnes

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George Romney

Clavering Children

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Portrait of a lady, traditionally identified as Mrs. Nelthorpe, three-quarter-length, in a white dress and pink shawl, beside a stone plinth.

George Romney

David Hartley

George Romney

Dorothy Bland (Mrs Jordan), as Peggy in 'The Country Girl'

George Romney

Double portrait of Henry Richard Greville (1779-1853)

George Romney

Double Portrait of Mrs. Russell and her eldest son, Henry, three- quarter-length, the former seated in a green dress, the latter in a white dress standing on a table before a circular mirror

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Dr John Matthews

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Dunlop of Carmyle, Provost of Glascow

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Edmund Burke

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Edmund Law, Bishop of Carlisle

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Edward Wortley Montagu (1713–1776) in Turkish Dress

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Elizabeth, Countess of Craven, Later Margravine of Anspach 1778

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Female figures in a landscape

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Emma Hamilton

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Emma Har

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George Boscawen 3rd Viscount Falmouth (1758-1808)

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Adam Walker and his family

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Admiral Sir Charles Hardy

George Romney

Charles Jenkinson, 1st Earl of Liverpool

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Charles Lennox, 3rd Duke of Richmond and Lennox

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Emma Lady Hamilton

George Romney

Emma Hart as Ariadne

George Romney

Emma Hart later Lady Hamilton in a Straw Hat

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Emma in Morning Dress

George Romney

Emma, Lady Hamilton

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Frederick Ponsonby 3rd Earl of Bessborough

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George Spencer , 4th Duke of Marlborough

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James Macpherson

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John Flaxman, Thomas Alphonso Hayley

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John Forbes

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John Walter or Wharton Tempest with a Horse

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John Wesley

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Lady Elizabeth Hamilton 1753-1797, Countess of Derby

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Lady Hamilton as a Bacchante

George Romney

Lady Hamilton as a Bacchante

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Lady Hamilton as a Bacchante

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Lady Hamilton as a Figure in Fortune Telling

George Romney

Lady Hamilton as Mirand

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Lady Hamilton as Nature

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Lady Hamilton as St Cecilia

George Romney

Lady Hamilton as Circe

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Lady Hamilton as Circe

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Lady Hamilton as Medea

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Lady Hamilton as The Magdalene

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Lady Hamilton praying

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Lady Mary Beauchamp-Procter

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Portrait of a Lady

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Portrait of a Lady

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Portrait of Emma Hamilton

George Romney

Portrait of Joseph Brant

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Portrait of Lady Henrietta Frances, Countess of Bessborough

George Romney

Portrait of Miss Willoughby

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Portrait of Mrs Maria Fitzherbert, wife of George IV.

George Romney

Portrait of Mrs Andrew Reid

George Romney

Portrait of Mrs Verelst

George Romney

Portrait of Vice-Admiral Sir Hyde Parker, 5th Baronet

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Sketch of Emma Hamilton

George Romney

Thomas Greene

George Romney

Tom Hayley as Robin Goodfellow

George Romney

Unknown man, formerly known as Peter Romney

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William Beckford

George Romney

William Paley

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George Romney

Portrait of the artist

George Romney

Princess Anne Lady de la Pole

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Children of Charles Boone

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George Romney

Group portrait of Mrs Charles Hawkins and her children

George Romney

Henrietta, Countess of Warwick, and Her Children

George Romney

Isabella Curwen

George Romney

James Clitherow

George Romney

James Macpherson

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jane maxwell, duchess of gordon and her son the marquis of huntly

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John Howard Visiting a Lazaretto

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John Wesley

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Joseph Allen

George Romney

Joseph Brant

George Romney

Joseph Brant colored illustration after 1776 Romney painting

George Romney

King Lear, Edgar and the Fools

George Romney

Lady Altamont

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Lady Arabella Ward

George Romney

Lady Emilia Kerr

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Lady Hamilton (Restrike Etching)

George Romney

Lady Hamilton as a Vestal

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Lady Hamilton as Cassandra

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Lady Holding a Book (recto)

George Romney

Lady Isabella Hamilton

George Romney

Lady Lemon,

George Romney

Lady Ramsay

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Lady in a brown robe

George Romney

George Romney

Madame de Genlis

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Major-General James Stuart, about 1735 - 1793. Commander-in-Chief in Madras

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Margery Jourdain and Bolingbroke conjuring up the Fiend

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Mary MacDonell Chichester, Lady Clifford Constable (1768-1825)

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Mary Moser (later Lloyd)

George Romney

Mary Pemberton

George Romney

Master Ward

George Romney

Melancholy-Il Penseroso

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Midshipman George Cumberland

George Romney

Miranda, Prospero and Shipwreck

George Romney

Mirth

George Romney

Miss Frances Mary Harford

George Romney

Miss Hariot Milles

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Miss Martindale

George Romney

Miss Mary Finch-Hatton

George Romney

Miss Constable

George Romney

Mr and Mrs William Lindow

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Mrs Ann Pitt

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Mrs Dawson

George Romney

Mrs Drummond Smith

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Mrs John Matthews

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Mrs John Sargent

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Mrs Johnstone and her Son

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Mrs Mark Currie

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Mrs Newbery

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Mrs Richard Cumberland and her Son Charles

George Romney

Mrs Robert Trotter of Bush

George Romney

Portrait of James Oliver

George Romney

Reclining Female Nude


Drawings

George Romney

Revelations of Darius

George Romney

Seated Woman

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Shepherd Girl. Little Bo-Peep Print by George Romney

Shepherd Girl. Little Bo-Peep

George Romney (26 December 1734 – 15 November 1802) was an English portrait painter. He was the most fashionable artist of his day, painting many leading society figures – including his artistic muse, Emma Hamilton, mistress of Lord Nelson.[1][2]

Early life and training

Romney was born in Beckside in Dalton-in-Furness, Lancashire (now part of Cumbria), the 3rd son (of 11 children) of John Romney, cabinet maker, and Anne Simpson. Raised in a cottage named High Cocken in modern-day Barrow-in-Furness, he was sent to school at nearby Dendron. He appears to have been an indifferent student and was withdrawn at the age of 11 and apprenticed to his father's business instead.

He proved to have a natural ability for drawing and making things from wood – including violins (which he played throughout his life). From the age of 15, he was taught art informally by a local watchmaker called John Williamson, but his studies began in earnest in 1755, when he went to Kendal, at the age of 21, for a 4-year apprenticeship with local artist Christopher Steele – a portraitist who had himself studied with distinguished French artist Carlo Vanloo. All costs were to be borne by George's father.

In October 1756, Romney married Mary Abbot (a decision he initially regretted), but the couple were immediately separated when he was called away to York on business by his employer. After a year, Steele eventually agreed to cancel the apprenticeship, at George's request, leaving the young artist – now a father of a son – free to pursue his own career as a painter.[3]


Work
Cumbria

In 1757, Romney rejoined his wife and young son in Kendal, working as a portraitist, landscape and historical painter. In this period he became friends with Adam Walker, the inventor and writer, and also pursued musical interests in his spare time. In March 1762, he parted from his wife, son and daughter (the latter dying in 1763), to seek his fortune in London, where he stayed (apart from a few return visits to Cumbria) until 1799. Throughout the separation, he maintained contact with his family and financially supported them, but they never lived with him in the capital.


London

In 1763, Romney entered his painting, "The Death of General Wolfe", into a Royal Society of Arts competition. According to friends of Romney, he was awarded the second prize of 50 guineas but this was later to reduced to 25 guineas on questionable grounds. It is said that Sir Joshua Reynolds himself was the prime mover behind this decision, a fact which may have accounted for the lifelong aversion of the two men for each other.

Despite his later success, Romney was never invited to join the Royal Academy of Arts (formed 1768), though he was asked, urged even, to exhibit there – nor did he ever apply to join. This decision certainly cost him valuable royal patronage and support from others connected at court. While there has been much speculation about his actual relationship with the Academy, there is no doubt that he normally remained aloof maintaining that a good artist should succeed without being a member. His own career supported this belief, and it was only towards the end of his life that he expressed the slightest regret for his views.[4]

His early years in the capital were something of a struggle financially. In September 1764, he travelled to Paris (with a friend, lawyer Thomas Greene) for a few weeks to study the works of the old masters (travel abroad was seen as a requisite of a developing artist's training as the opportunity to view great art in London was very limited). In 1765 he again won the second prize of 50 guineas in the Royal Society of Arts competition. In 1768, he made the acquaintance of Richard Cumberland, the dramatist, whose portrait he painted, and who was helpful in introducing him to influential patrons. He also became friends with miniature painter Ozias Humphrey.

1769 was a breakthrough year – he exhibited a large portrait of Sir George Warren and family at the Free Society of Artists, which was greatly admired and helped to lay the foundations of his future popularity. In 1770 he started to exhibit his work at the Chartered Society of Artists rather the rival "Free Society of Artists".


Italy
Near life-size (94"*58") portrait of Lady Anne de la Pole (1758–1832) (née Templer), wife of Sir John de la Pole, 6th Baronet, painted in 1786 by George Romney. Sold at Christie's London on 13th July 1913, purchased by the dealers Duveen Brothers of New York for 40,000 guineas ($ 206,850), then a record price for any work of art sold in London.[5] Now at Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

By 1772 Romney was financially secure enough to make the journey (with Ozias Humphrey) to Italy to study the great artists of the past, as he had always intended. He set off in March, making his way through Europe (via Paris, Lyon, Marseilles, Nice, Genoa, Livorno, Florence and Pisa) and arriving in Rome in June. A letter of introduction allowed him to meet the Pope, Clement XIV, who allowed him to set up scaffolding in the Vatican to study the frescoes of Raphael. He spent 18 months in Rome making studies and sketches of the great art works on view there. He returned to London in July 1775 (via Florence, Bologna, Venice, Parma, and Turin) after an absence of over 2 years.


Later career

On his return, in 1775, Romney moved to Cavendish Square, in a house formerly owned by noted portraitist Francis Cotes. He was considerably in debt, not only on his own account but also due to being saddled with the debt of his artistic but dissolute brother Peter. Fortunately, he was offered commissions by the Duke of Richmond and his circle of friends, which helped turn the tide of fortune permanently in the artist's favour. In 1776–77, he made the acquaintance of William Hayley, striking up a lasting friendship with the writer, and painting portraits for him.

1782 was the beginning of an important new chapter in Romney's life, for in that year he was first introduced to Emma Hamilton (then called Emma Hart) who became his muse. He painted over 60 portraits of her in various poses, sometimes playing the part of historical or mythological figures.[6] He also painted many other contemporaries, including fellow artist Mary Moser.

In 1797 Romney left his studio at 32 Cavendish Square, where he had worked for more than twenty years, to move to Holly Bush Hill in Hampstead. In Hampstead Romney embarked on a series of costly building projects, and sold the house two years later. Romney's House is now a Grade I listed building, and Romney is commemorated by a blue plaque placed on the property.

In the summer of 1799, his health broken, and after an absence of almost forty years, Romney returned to his wife, Mary, in Kendal. She nursed him during the remaining 2 years of his life until he died in November 1802. He was buried in the churchyard of St. Mary's Parish Church, Dalton-in-Furness.

George Romney is a kinsman of American businessmen and politicians George W. Romney (1907–1995) and Mitt Romney (born 1947); their ancestor Miles Romney was George Romney's first cousin.[7]


Public collections of works

Romney's work is on display at many museums and art Galleries in the UK, North America and elsewhere:

UK and Ireland

Abbot Hall Art Gallery (Kendal); Kendal Town Hall (Kendal); Ashmolean Museum (University of Oxford); Courtauld Institute of Art (London); Dorset County Museum (Dorchester); Dulwich Picture Gallery (London); National Portrait Gallery, London; National Maritime Museum (London); Tate Gallery (London); Wallace Collection (London); Falmouth Art Gallery; Fitzwilliam Museum (University of Cambridge); Dalton Castle; Manchester City Art Gallery; National Museum Cardiff; National Museums Liverpool; New Art Gallery (Walsall); National Galleries of Scotland; Crawford Municipal Art Gallery (Ireland).

United States and Canada

Ackland Art Museum (University of North Carolina); Art Gallery of the University of Rochester (New York); Art Institute of Chicago; Beaverbrook Art Gallery (New Brunswick); Blanton Museum of Art (University of Texas at Austin); Brigham Young University Museum of Art (Utah); Carnegie Museum of Art (Pittsburgh); Dallas Museum of Art; Detroit Institute of Arts; the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, Robert Hull Fleming Museum (University of Vermont); Frick Collection (New York City); the Getty Museum (Los Angeles); Harvard University Art Museums; Honolulu Museum of Art; Huntington Library (California); the Kimbell Art Museum (Fort Worth, Texas); the Los Angeles County Museum of Art; Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York City); Museum of Fine Arts, Houston (Texas); Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; National Gallery of Art (Washington D.C.); Norton Simon Museum (Pasadena, California); Philadelphia Museum of Art; Wadsworth Atheneum (Hartford, Connecticut); Phoenix Art Museum (Phoenix, Arixona); National Gallery of Canada.

Elsewhere

Dunedin Public Art Gallery (New Zealand); Hermitage Museum (St. Petersburg, Russia), Louvre (Paris, France); Musée des beaux-arts (Pau, France), National Gallery of Victoria (Australia), MASP (Brazil).


See also

English school of painting

References

Lee, Sidney, ed. (1897). "Romney, George". Dictionary of National Biography 49. London: Smith, Elder & Co. pp. 191–200.
Rowley Cleve. George Romney.
Paston, pp. 1–16.
Cross, David A.
"Romney Portrait sold $206,850". The New York Times. 1913-07-14.
Emma Hamilton and George Romney (Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool).

Reitwiesner, William Addams. "The Ancestors of Mitt Romney". Wargs.com. Retrieved 17 January 2012.

Further reading

Cleve, Rowley. George Romney (London: G. Bell & sons, 1901).
Paston, George. George Romney (Methuen & Co., 1903).
Chamberlain, Arthur Bensley (1910). George Romney. London: Methuen. Retrieved 19 March 2015.
Rump, Gerhard C. (1974): George Romney (1734–1802). Zur Bildform der Bürgerlichen Mitte in der Englischen Neoklassik. 2 vols. Olms: Hildesheim, New York. ISBN 3-487-05107-9
Hayes, John (1992). British paintings of the sixteenth through nineteenth centuries. Princeton University Press. pp. 229–230. ISBN 978-0-521-41066-3.
Cross, David A. (2000). A Striking Likeness: The Life of George Romney. Ashgate. ISBN 978-1-84014-671-4.

External links

Romney online (ArtCyclopedia)
George Romney exhibition (Walker Art Gallery)
The Romney Society: British art's forgotten genius
Gallery of Romney's Art
George Romney at Find a Grave
"The Return", a poem by Florence Earle Coates
Fifteenth- to eighteenth-century European paintings: France, Central Europe, the Netherlands, Spain, and Great Britain, a collection catalog fully available online as a PDF, which contains material on Romney (cat. no. 41)

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