The Gower Family
1777
Medium
Recto: Brush and brown ink, over black chalk, on ivory laid paper, edge mounted to cream card; verso: Graphite on ivory laid paper edge mounted to cream card
Dimensions
14.4 × 12 cm (5 11/16 × 4 3/4 in.)
Classification
drawings (visual works)
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
185727
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...