NATIONAL GALLERY, LONDON.
Study of Lady Hamilton as a Bacchante, about 1786. (312)
The Parson's Daughter. A portrait. A circular bust portrait of a young lady. See page 45. (1068)
Portraits of Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Lindow. A life-size group. Bought in 1893. Strong in colour, and more definite and hard than is the artist's usual manner. (1396)
Portrait of Mrs. Mark Currie. A portrait of a lady seated on a terrace. See page 44. Painted in May, 1789. Romney received sixty guineas for this picture, which was bought for a very large sum by the Trustees from the family in 1897. (1651)
Portrait of a Lady and Child. (1667)
NATIONAL PORTRAIT GALLERY, LONDON.
Portrait of Wm. Cowper, the poet.
Portrait of R. Cumberland, the dramatist.
Portrait of John Flaxman, R.A., designer and sculptor, represented modelling the bust of his friend Hayley, author of "The Triumphs of Temper," whose son, T. A. Hayley, is also introduced as a spectator. The son was a pupil of Flaxman.
Portrait of Lady Hamilton. A half-length, resting her elbows on the table, and with her face turned somewhat to the right. See page 47.
Portrait of James Harris, M.P. for Christchurch, a writer of treatises on art, music, painting and poetry, and of other works. His son became Earl of Malmesbury.
Portrait of the artist himself, unfinished. It was done in 1782, and bought at Miss Romney's sale in 1894.
THE WALLACE GALLERY, LONDON.
Portrait of Mrs. Robinson, the actress, in her favourite character of Perdita. See page 49. (37)
ROYAL INSTITUTION, LIVERPOOL.
A series of fine cartoons by the artist.
BIRMINGHAM ART GALLERY
A portrait of Lady Holte.
The foregoing represent the chief works of the artist that are in public and accessible galleries; but the greatest works still remain in private hands, and many of them are from time to time exhibited in London and the provinces.
Amongst notable collections may be mentioned that of the Duke of Sutherland, in which are the portraits of Elizabeth, Duchess of Sutherland, the second Marquess of Stafford, the five children of the Earl of Sutherland dancing in a ring, and the Countess of Carlisle. See pages 51-55.
The Rev. J. W. Napier-Clavering also owns some of the choicest works of Romney, namely, Maria Margaret Clavering, afterwards Lady Napier, Colonel Thomas Thornton, and the delightful group of Sir Thomas Clavering and his sister. See page 45.
Mr. Lockett Agnew owns the portraits of Miss Hay, Miss Leyborne Popham with her dog, Miss Popham, Lady Mary Parkhurst and Mr. Charles Parkhurst, all of them important pictures.
The Marquess of Lansdowne has the portraits of Lord Henry Petty and of Lady Louisa Fitzpatrick, both fine works, besides others of lesser importance; and other fine portraits belong to Mr. Beebe, Mr. R. Biddulph Martin, who has two, Sir Cuthbert Quilter, who has the splendid portrait of Mrs. Jordan, Sir Edward Newdigate-Newdegate, whose portrait of Lady Newdigate is well known, and Mr. Makins.
Other portraits belong to Earl Granville, Lord de Tabley, the Earl of Cawdor, the Earl of Normanton, Lord Berwick, Lord Thurlow, and to several members of the Rothschild family.
"George Romney and His Art," by Hilda Gamlin, 1894.
"Romney and Lawrence," by Lord Ronald Sutherland-Gower, 1882.
"Memoirs of Lady Hamilton," annotated by Long, 1891.
"Lady Hamilton," by Hilda Gamlin, 1894.
Cunningham's "Painters," 1879.
"Illustrated Catalogue of a Collection of Portraits exhibited at Birmingham in 1900."
"Memoirs of Romney," by Hayley, 1809.
"Memoirs of Romney," by his son, the Rev. John Romney, 1830.
The Catalogues of the Romney Exhibition in the Grafton Galleries in 1900 and 1901, with Notes by Nash.
"The Life of Mrs. Robinson," by Molloy, 1894.
1734. Birth of Romney.
1756. His marriage.
1757. His indenture cancelled.
1762. He starts for London.
1763. PaintsThe Death of General Wolfefor a premium offered by the Society of Arts.
1764. Journey to France.
1773. Journey to Italy, notably to Rome.
1775. Settled in Cavendish Square.
1782. First met Mistress Hart, afterwards Lady Hamilton.
1797. Removed to Hampstead.
1799. Returns to his wife.
1802. His death.
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