Procession of Three Draped Women Holding Crosses or Sceptres
George Romney
1754/1802
Medium
Pen and brown ink, with brush and brown ink, over graphite, on ivory laid paper, tipped onto tan wove paper
Dimensions
18.2 × 14 cm (7 3/16 × 5 9/16 in.)
Classification
pen and ink drawings
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
83374
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...