Mr. Forbes
George Romney
c. 1780/1790
Medium
oil on canvas
Dimensions
overall: 76.4 x 63.5 cm (30 1/16 x 25 in.) framed: 94.3 x 81.9 x 7.6 cm (37 1/8 x 32 1/4 x 3 in.)
Classification
Painting
Department
CAB
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Gift of Pauline Sabin Davis
Accession Number
1954.14.1
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...