Catalogue of the oil paintings and water colours in the Wallace collection with short notices of the painters (1910)
Wallace Collection (London, England) · London : Printed for H. M. Stationery off. · leaf 267
fame and fortune. In 1773 he paid a long-desired visit to Italy, and in 1775 settled in London, andtook a house in Cavendish Square. He acquired a popularityhardly second to that of Reynolds and Gainsborough, and,indeed, divided the town into a Reynolds and a Romneyfaction. Romney never exhibited… … Portrait of Mrs. Robinson ( Perdita J.—GEORGE ROMNEY.Plate 50. Pa^e 161. ROQUEPLAN. 161 representation of men. As the painter of young gallantsin the early bloom of manhood, and of boys preservingin their beauty a characteristically British and manlytype, he is hardly second to Reynolds himself. In…
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