Jo Manning: Artists and Their Models - Part One of Part Six

GEORGE ROMNEY (1734-1802)


Decidedly a horse of a different color was the artist George Romney… In the parlance of the 18th century, he would be termed an Original, a description used for people who were truly different, as unique as that horse described by Frank Baum in The Wizard of Oz.

Whilst there were, for sure, commonalities with Romney's fellow painters Reynolds and Gainsborough in the area of their very great artistic talent, there were singular differences as well in personality and te...