Major-General Sir Archibald Campbell
George Romney
1790-1792
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 · 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...