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This handsome catalogue, which accompanies a major international exhibition commemorating the bicentennial of George Romney's death, offers the first in-depth modern overview of a key figure in eighteenth-century British art. Romney's chief ambition, however, was to succeed as a history painter, and he made countless drawings for literary and mythological pictures that he never had time to paint. These drawings mark Romney as one of the first Romantics.
Reproducing over two hundred works, this is the most generously illustrated volume on Romney to date. In a major departure from earlier treatments, the book devotes equal attention to his drawings and his paintings, persuasively demonstrating how interdependent the two media were in his art. Alex Kidson has written an invitingly personal, intriguingly speculative text, in which Romney emerges as one of the most brilliant and inventive artists of his time. Any serious consideration of his work must begin with this book.
Alex Kidson, Winner of Historians of British Art book prize. 2002, Cloth, ISBN: 978-0-691-09559-2. 256 pp. | 8 3/4 x 11 | 162 color plates, 65 halftones |
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