Mrs. Thomas Scott Jackson
c. 1770/1773
Medium
oil on canvas
Dimensions
overall: 239 x 147 cm (94 1/8 x 57 7/8 in.)
Classification
Painting
Department
CAB
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Andrew W. Mellon Collection
Accession Number
1937.1.94
Art Historical Context
George Romney’s *Mrs. Thomas Scott Jackson* (c. 1770/1773) captures the elegance of British high society during the late eighteenth century. Painted in oil on a grand canvas nearly eight feet tall, the full-length portrait exemplifies the period’s taste for displaying wealth and refinement. Romney, a leading London portraitist alongside Joshua Reynolds and Thomas Gainsborough, specialized in graceful depictions of fashionable women that blended neoclassical poise with lively naturalism. The scale and medium allowed Romney to render luxurious fabrics and subtle skin tones with luminous depth, ...
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...