George Romney

This magnificent catalogue, in three volumes and with nearly 2,000 illustrations, will restore George Romney (17341802) to his long-overdue position with his contemporaries Reynolds and Gainsborough as a master of 18th-century British portrait painting. The product of impressive and thorough research undertaken over the course of 20 years, Alex Kidson asserts Romneys status as one of the greatest British painters, whose last catalogue raisonn was published over 100 years ago. In more than 1,800 entries, many supported by new photography, Kidson aims to solve longstanding issues of attribution, distinguishing genuine pictures by Romney from works whose traditional attribution to him can no longer be supported. The authors insights are guided by rich primary source material on Romneyincluding account books, ledgers, and sketchbooksas well as secondary sources such as prints after lost works, newspaper reports and reviews, and writings by Romneys contemporaries. Published for the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art