Study of Two Figures: One Seated, the Other Standing (recto); Study of a Head Looking Upwards (verso)
ca. 1777
Medium
Graphite with traces of pen and brown ink at upper right
Dimensions
11 x 7 11/16 in. (27.9 x 19.5 cm)
Classification
Drawings
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 2001
Accession Number
2001.61a, b
Tags
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...