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

Romney spent two years in Italy, returning to London in 1775. He was 40 years old. He lived alone, working out of a studio/dwelling at 24 Cavendish Square. Previous to this location he'd lived in a large studio at Charing Cross and later in one in the Covent Garden area, where so many artists resided. (His last house-cum-studio was in the Hampstead countryside; he sold the lease for the long-held Cavendish Square property when he relocated.)


The Cavendish Square studio was where he first met E...