George Romney (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

Cleeve, Rowley

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1440060819 ISBN 13: 9781440060816

Publisher: Forgotten Books, 2018

Synopsis

George Romney: A Portrait of a Gifted Artist in 18th-Century Britain

This concise biography reveals how the English painter George Romney built a career from signboards to noble portraits, historical scenes, and a life marked by passion, travel, and notable figures. Readers follow his move from Kendal to London, his tireless search for study and opportunity, and the ways his work earned praise and stirred rivalry with Reynolds and Gainsborough. The book also delves into Romney’s relationships, including his long marriage and the famous connection with Lady Hamilton, placing his art within the social currents of his time. It offers a candid look at his strengths as a draughtsman, his gift for graceful composition, and the circumstances that shaped his best portraits and quiet, characteristic scenes.

• Understand how Romney developed from a provincial painter to a celebrated storyteller in paint, with a focus on portraiture.
• Explore how his drawing skill, graceful posture, and use of warm, sunny color contributed to his distinctive style.
• Compare Romney’s approach to portraiture with his rivals and see what made his best works stand out.
• Learn which major works and public collections house his celebrated portraits.

Ideal for readers of art biographies who want a clear, accessible portrait of an 18th‑century artist and the world he inhabited.

About this title

Product Description

Excerpt from George Romney George Romney was a Cumberland lad, born in 1734, of parents who were in humble circumstances living at Dalton in the Fells. His father was an ingenious man who lived on his own farm as a yeoman, but who followed also the pursuits of a joiner and cabinet-maker, and who was one of the first persons in the north to see and make use of the newly imported wood mahogany, from which he made a chest of drawers out of a sailors chest brought from the West Indies. Romney inherited much of his father's ingenuity, and as a lad set about making a fiddle, which he completed in later years and retained all his life. It was a sound instrument of really good tone, and the artist himself played well upon it. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Edition details

• Publisher: Forgotten Books
• Publication date: 2018
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1440060819
• ISBN 13: 9781440060816
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 101