Admiral Sir Chaloner Ogle (1726–1816)
Medium
Oil on canvas
Dimensions
30 x 24 5/8 in. (76.2 x 62.5 cm)
Classification
Paintings
Department
European Paintings
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Gift of Lennen and Newell Inc., 1953
Accession Number
53.220
Tags
MenPortraitsAdmirals
About the Artist
George Romney · 1734–1802
George Romney (1734–1802) was a British portrait painter who, alongside Sir Joshua Reynolds and Thomas Gainsborough, formed the triumvirate of great English portraitists in the second half of the eighteenth century. Born in Dalton-in-Furness, Lancashire, he received his early training from the itinerant portrait painter Christopher Steele before moving to London in 1762. Romney quickly establishe...