Mrs. Charles Frederick (Martha Rigden, died 1794)
Medium
Oil on canvas
Dimensions
29 3/4 x 24 3/4 in. (75.6 x 62.9 cm)
Classification
Paintings
Department
European Paintings
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Fletcher Fund, 1945
Accession Number
45.59.5
Tags
PortraitsWomen
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...