A Striking Likeness
Subtitle: The Life of George Romney
Publisher: Ashgate Publishing
Published: July 2000
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 258
ISBN-13: 9781840146714
Subjects: Biography: general; History of art & design styles: c 1600 to c 1800; Individual artists; Painting & paintings; Portraits in art; c 1700 to c 1800; Individual Painters - 18th Century; Biography & Autobiography; Biography / Autobiography; Biography/Autobiography; England; General; Artists, Architects, Photographers; 1734-1802; Biography; Great Britain; Portrait painters; Romney, George,
Description: "In their stunning simplicity, George Romney's portraits of eighteenth-century gentry and their children are among the most widely recognized creations of his age. A rival to Reynolds and Gainsborough, Romney was born in 1734 on the edge of the Lake District, the landscape which never ceased to influence his eye for composition and colour. He moved in 1762 to London where there was an insatiable market for portraits of the landed gentry to fill the elegant picture galleries of their country houses.

Romney's sitters included William Beckford and Emma Hart, later Lady Hamilton." "An influential figure, one of the founding fathers of neo-classicism and a harbinger of romanticism, Romney yearned to develop his talents as a history painter. Countless drawings bear witness to ambitious projects on elemental themes which were rarely executed on canvas. Richly illustrated, this is the first biography of Romney to explore the full diversity of his oeuvre."--BOOK JACKET.