Portrait of a man

Romney, George (1734-1802)

Item type:

painting

Date of creation:

1758-1760

Height:

64.1 cm  (25 1/4 in.)

Width:

56.8 cm  (22 3/8 in.)

Technique / Medium:

oil on canvas

Description

This painting presents a landscape scene as the background for a portrait of a man in a distinctive blue suit standing near a pair of musical instruments (violin, and what seems to be a cello facing away from the viewer). An open book is partially visible on the ground at the right of the painting.

Iconclass

23HH
landscapes - HH - ideal landscapes
61B11
anonymous historical person portrayed
48CC723
portrait of a musician - CC - out of doors

Instruments [MIMO Code] (notes)

Violin [3573] (with bow)
Violoncello [3582]

RIdIM images

Image URLs

image link 1

Bibliographic references

Barringer, Timothy J. Art & music in Britain: Four encounters, 1730-1900 (New Haven: Yale Center for British Art, 2006) 16, 21, 39.



Brenneman, David. "Romney paintings in the Yale Center for British Art", Transactions of the Romney Society 1 (1996) 18.



D'Oench, Ellen G. The conversation piece: Arthur Devis & his contemporaries (New Haven: Yale Center for British Art, 1980) 57-58, 73, cat. no. 58.



Kidson, Alex. George Romney: A complete catalogue of his paintings (New Haven: The Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art, 2015) v. 2, 499-500, cat. no. 1114, col. pl. 1114.



Maclean-Eltham, B. E. George Romney: Paintings in public collections (Kendal, Cumbria, England: The Romney Society, 1996) 62.

RIdIM record id

6229