Major-General Sir Archibald Campbell

George Romney

1790-1792

Major-General Sir Archibald Campbell by George Romney

Medium

oil on canvas

Dimensions

overall: 153.4 x 123.9 cm (60 3/8 x 48 3/4 in.) framed: 174 x 144.8 cm (68 1/2 x 57 in.)

Classification

Painting

Department

CAB

Museum

National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.

Credit

Timken Collection

Accession Number

1960.6.31

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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