Figure of a Woman
George Romney
c. 1776
Medium
Brush and brown ink on cream laid paper
Dimensions
43.2 × 23.8 cm (17 1/16 × 9 3/8 in.)
Classification
ink
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
51382
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...