Half-Figure of a Young Woman

George Romney

1782–86

Half-Figure of a Young Woman by George Romney

Medium

Pen and brush and brown ink

Dimensions

7 3/16 x 4 9/16 in. (18.2 x 11.6 cm)

Classification

Drawings

Department

Robert Lehman Collection

Museum

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY

Credit

Robert Lehman Collection, 1975

Accession Number

1975.1.892

Tags

Women

About the Artist

George Romney · 17341802

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...

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