Memoirs of the Life and Works of George Romney: Including Various Letters, and Testimonies to his Genius, etc., Also, Some Particulars of the Life of Peter Romney, his Brother

Memoirs of the Life and Works of George Romney: Including Various Letters, and Testimonies to his Genius, etc., Also, Some Particulars of the Life of Peter Romney, his Brother

by John Romney
Memoirs of the Life and Works of George Romney: Including Various Letters, and Testimonies to his Genius, etc., Also, Some Particulars of the Life of Peter Romney, his Brother

Memoirs of the Life and Works of George Romney: Including Various Letters, and Testimonies to his Genius, etc., Also, Some Particulars of the Life of Peter Romney, his Brother

by John Romney

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Overview

Written by his son John Romney (1757–1832) and published in 1830, nearly three decades after the artist's death, this collection of anecdotes and biographical episodes traces the extraordinary career of George Romney (1734–1802), highlighting his early training as a joiner in the family firm, his artistic education at the hands of the disreputable Christopher Steele, and his eventual fame as a portraitist of fashionable London. Recollections of personal and professional encounters with such influential figures as Laurence Sterne and Richard Payne Knight provide insights into the circumstances that inspired Romney's most famous works. Including an engraving of his self-portrait of c.1784, a section on his brother and fellow painter Peter Romney (1743–77), and a list of the designs and studies which were donated in 1817 to the Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge, this work reveals much about the eighteenth-century art world, its patrons and its pitfalls.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781108065924
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 09/05/2013
Series: Cambridge Library Collection - Art and Architecture
Pages: 352
Product dimensions: 7.01(w) x 10.00(h) x 0.75(d)

Table of Contents

Preface; 1. Mr Romney's parentage; 2. Letter to Mrs Romney; 3. Pictures painted for the duke of Richmond; Appendix: Peter Romney.
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