Lady Holding a Book (recto); Plan of Placing Colors on a Palette (verso)
George Romney
1754–1803
Medium
Recto: graphite Recto: pen and ink
Dimensions
Sheet: 15 3/16 x 10 11/16 in. (38.6 x 27.1 cm)
Classification
Drawings
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Rogers Fund, 1911
Accession Number
11.66.4
Rights
Public Domain
Tags
BooksWomen
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...