Troilus and Cressida, Act IV, Scene V: The Fight Between Hector and Ajax II
George Romney
late 1780s/early 1790s
Medium
pen and gray ink with gray wash over graphite
Dimensions
overall: 40 × 54.6 cm (15 3/4 × 21 1/2 in.)
Classification
Drawing
Department
CG-E
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Gift of Donald Stone
Accession Number
2022.40.62
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...