George Romney (Dalton-in-Furness 1734-1802 Kendal)
George Romney (Dalton-in-Furness 1734-1802 Kendal)

Study of women and children in an interior

Details
George Romney (Dalton-in-Furness 1734-1802 Kendal)
Study of women and children in an interior
pencil, brush and brown ink on paper
11½ x 18¼ in. (29.2 x 46.3 cm.)
Provenance
with Agnew's, London, February 1984.
with Agnew's, London, 2002, no. 3.
Exhibited
Kendal, Abbot Hall Art Gallery, George Romney (1734-1802): 250th Anniversary Exhibition, July - September 1984, no. 10.

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Lot Essay

The present drawing may be related to a brown wash drawing in the Fitzwilliam Museum known as Two women and two children (see P. Jaffé, Drawings by George Romney from the Fitzwilliam Museum Cambridge, Cambridge, 1977, no. 107, pl. 48), which depicts two women standing over a small girl seated on the left, with another young figure indicated between them. If so, it was probably executed circa 1793, after Romney escaped from London to work at Pine Apple Place, his 'little villa' at Hampstead, where he made many studies of women and children, and of children at play, describing them as 'innocent little spirits' who give 'more soft delight to the mind than I can describe to soften the steps down declining life' (quoted in Jaffé, op.cit., p. 62).

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