Kneeling Figures Huddled Together
George Romney
n.d.
Medium
Brush and brown ink, with touches of pen and brown ink, on ivory laid paper, tipped onto tan wove paper
Dimensions
18.1 × 10.9 cm (7 3/16 × 4 5/16 in.)
Classification
pen and ink drawings
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
83381
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...