Mrs. Davies Davenport
George Romney
1782-1784
Medium
oil on canvas
Dimensions
overall: 76.5 x 64 cm (30 1/8 x 25 3/16 in.) framed: 104.1 x 91.4 x 12.7 cm (41 x 36 x 5 in.)
Classification
Painting
Department
CAB
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Andrew W. Mellon Collection
Accession Number
1937.1.105
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...