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George Romney Works Online
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Original works by George Romney available for purchase at art galleries worldwide
Paintings in Museums and Public Art Galleries Worldwide:
 Art Institute of Chicago NEW!
George Romney at the Detroit Institute of Arts, Michigan
2 works online
Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco NEW!
Fitzwilliam Museum at the University of Cambridge, UK
Fitzwilliam Museum PHAROS Website, Cambridge, UK
Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg, Russia
Portrait of Mrs Harrit Greer, 1781
J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles
Portrait of Anne, Duchess of Cumberland, 1788
George Romney at the Louvre Museum, Paris
The Lappish Witch Watching a Shipwreck in a Storm, ca.1775-80
Louvre Museum Graphic Art Database, Paris (in French) 
Many works on paper online
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City NEW! 
Metropolitan Museum of Art Timetable of Art History
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston NEW!
Paintings collection online
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston NEW!
Drawings collection online
National Galleries of Scotland, Edinburgh NEW!
National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C. NEW!
Includes a biography of the artist
National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa 
Norton Simon Museum, Pasadena, California
Prado Museum Database, Madrid NEW!
(Linking to the Spanish-language version because it contains far more works than the English version)
Royal Academy of Arts Collection, London, UK
Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington D.C. NEW!
Tate Gallery, London, UK
United Kingdom Parliament, London
Edward Thurlow, 1st Baron Thurlow
Ackland Art Museum at the University of North Carolina
Amgueddfa Cymru - National Museum Wales, Cardiff
Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
A study of two women: a sketch for the Milner sisters
Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide
Colonel Robert Abercrombie, 1788
Ashmolean Museum at the University of Oxford, UK
Beaverbrook Art Gallery, New Brunswick
Blanton Museum of Art at the University of Texas, Austin
Lady Hamilton, 1791
Bolton Art Gallery, UK
Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio
Columbia Museum of Art, South Carolina
Thomas, Lord Middleton
Courtauld Institute of Art, London, UK
432 works by or related to the artist
Crawford Art Gallery, Cork, Ireland
Portrait Group, ca.1780
Denver Art Museum / Berger Collection, Colorado
Portrait of a Lady, 1780s
Dulwich Picture Gallery, London, UK NEW!
Falmouth Art Gallery, England
George Boscawen, 3rd Viscount Falmouth
Fleming Museum at the University of Vermont
Miss Anna Seward, 1782
Frick Collection, New York City NEW!
Harvard University Art Museums, Massachusetts
Harvard have works in their collections, but unfortunately you have to type in the search yourself
Hunterian Museum and Art Gallery, University of Glasgow, Scotland
Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indiana
Kimbell Art Museum, Fort Worth, Texas NEW!
Lancashire Museums, England
Portrait of John Satterthwaite
Los Angeles County Museum of Art NEW!
Manchester City Art Gallery, UK
McMaster Museum of Art, Hamilton, Ontario
Robert, 9th Baron Petre demonstrating the use of an écorché figure, ca.1775-76
Memorial Art Gallery of the University of Rochester, New York
Colonel James Clitherow
Portrait of Lady Maitland
Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, St. Louis, Missouri
National Gallery of Victoria, Australia
2 works online
National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, UK
11 works online
National Museums Liverpool, UK
Various "cartoons"
National Museums Liverpool, UK
Mrs John Sargent
National Museums Liverpool, UK
Sarah Rodbard
National Portrait Gallery, London, UK
New Art Gallery, Walsall, England
The Little Scholar
North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh
Norwich Museums, England
Philadelphia Museum of Art
Phoenix Art Museum, Arizona
Sir Richard Cumberland, ca.1775
Phoenix Art Museum, Arizona
Anne Birch, 1777
Princeton University Art Museum, New Jersey
San Diego Museum of Art, California NEW!
Southampton City Art Gallery, England
State Museums of Florence Digital Archive, Italy
Statens Museum for Kunst (National Gallery of Denmark), Copenhagen
Click "English" at the top right to switch the default language, then click "Search"
The Albertina Graphic Art Databank, Vienna (in German)
The Hepworth Wakefield, England
Portrait of Rev Daniel Wilson, ca.1761
The Huntington Library, California
The Wallace Collection, London, UK NEW!
University of Lethbridge Art Gallery, Alberta, Canada
Iphigenia Sleeping, drawing
Wawel Royal Castle, Krakow, Poland
Portrait of a Lady
Winnipeg Art Gallery, Manitoba
Worcester City Art Gallery & Museum, England
Thomas Elwine of Coventry
National Art Databases and Museum Inventories:
Art Fund for UK Museums
Quite a few works online
D'Outre Manche Database of British Art in French Public Collections
Joconde Database of French Museum Collections (in French)
Art Market:
(e.g. records of past sales at auction; sites providing examples of the artist's signature)
Christie's Past Sale Archive
(database goes as far back as 1991; images go about as far back as 1999)
Sotheby's Sold Lot Archive
(database goes as far back as 1998; images where permitted by copyright go about as far back as 2001)
Pictures from Image Archives:
Google Art Project
Mr and Mrs William Lindow (Tate Britain, London)
George Romney at The Art Renewal Center
George Romney at The Athenaeum 
4 works online
George Romney in the Web Gallery of Art
Wikimedia Commons Image Database
Bildindex der Kunst und Architektur (in German)
(a welcome screen is displayed for a couple of seconds before the search results appear)
California State University WorldImages Database
George Romney at CGFA
Ciudad de la Pintura (in Spanish)
Humanities Web
New York Public Library Digital Gallery
RKD Netherlands Imagebase NEW!
Eclectic database of images that range from old black-and-white photos to superb, zoomable reproductions
State Hermitage Museum Unofficial Site
Additional Image Search Tools:
(SafeSearch set to "strict"; go to Advanced Search (Flickr/Google) or Preferences (Bing) to change)
Miscellaneous Sites:
Peter Nahum At The Leicester Galleries, London, UK
Archive of past displayed works which are "sold" or "not for sale"
Shakespeare Illustrated
The Modernist Journals Project
(Click "Retrieve Images" to see artworks)
UK Government Art Collection
Articles and Reference Sites:
Encyclopedia Britannica complete article on George Romney 
Note: The full version of the article is available only if you follow this link. If you bookmark the article and return later, or if you navigate directly to the Britannica website, you will see a 100-word preview only. Troubleshooting
RKD Netherlands Institute for Art History
Union List of Artist Names (Getty Museum)
Reference sheet with basic information about the artist and pointers to other references.
Wikipedia, the "Open Content" Encyclopedia
Biographical info
The Guardian Newspaper, UK
Essay on Self-Portrait, 1784
The London Evening Standard
"Still in the shadows", 2002 article by Brian Sewell
"Look Inside" and "Search Inside" Books at Amazon
| Look Inside Books: | Selections from the books listed below are scanned in, in high res. Text is clearly readable and art reproductions vary from so-so to excellent. Don't miss the fact that you can usually zoom in via the "View" drop-down menu, along the top row of Amazon's Online Reader. | |
| Search Inside Books: | Same as "Look Inside", except that the entire book is scanned in, and the text is fully searchable. This is an unbelievable resource, for research and especially for previewing a book when making the decision to buy.
Note: Some "Search Inside" features are limited to people signed in to an account which has previously made a purchase at Amazon. | |
look inside
A Striking Likeness: The Life of George Romney
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