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A striking likeness : the life of George Romney / David Cross.
LIBRA ND1329.R65 C76 2000
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Cross, David, 1951-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Romney, George, 1734-1802.
- Portrait painters--England--Biography.
- Portrait painters.
- England.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Physical Description:
- xiv, 258 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Aldershot ; Brookfield, Vt. : Ashgate, [2000]
- Contents:
- 1 From woodcarver to portraitist 1734-62 1
- 2 In London: architect of his own fortune 1762-4 19
- 3 Great Newport Street 1764-73 35
- 4 'Egad George, we're bit!' Italy and neo-classicism 1773-5 49
- 5 Growing reputation and 'The Hermit of Eartham' 1775-86 65
- 6 'The man in Cavendish Square' 1775-86 79
- 7 Patterns of friendship 1775-86 127
- 8 John Boydell and the closet romantic 1786-90 143
- 9 Prisons and philanthropy 1790-92 163
- 10 The fall of a rebel angel: years of decline 1793-6 177
- 11 'An owl in the desert' 1796-1802 193
- George Romney's family tree 208.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [245]-250) and indexes.
- ISBN:
- 1840146710
- OCLC:
- 40460084
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