Lady Holding a Book (recto); Plan of Placing Colors on a Palette (verso)
George Romney
1754–1803
Medium
Recto: graphite Recto: pen and ink
Dimensions
Sheet: 15 3/16 x 10 11/16 in. (38.6 x 27.1 cm)
Classification
Drawings
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Rogers Fund, 1911
Accession Number
11.66.4
Tags
BooksWomen
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...