George Romney was a British artist known for his portrait painting of society figures. Born in 1734 in Beckside, Lancashire, England, he died in 1802 in Kendal, Cumbria, England. Romney spent much of ...

Rifling through the trash in Hudson, New York last year, they chanced upon a discarded pen and ink sketch that turned out to be by the renowned English portrait painter George Romney. The unlikely ...

The artist used sweeping ... An inscription in pencil notes, “She sat to Romney in 1777, 1782 and 1784.” Henrietta Vernon ...

Jean-Antoine Houdon’s six-foot-tall sculpture Diana the Huntress (1776–95) spent much of the past five years in a box while construction workers hammered away nearby.