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George Romney
George Romney British
Not on view
This unfinished self-portrait was begun for the artist’s friend and biographer William Hayley during a trip that Romney and the artist John Flaxman made to Hayley’s villa. Romney took it back to his studio, but around 1787 it was sent to Hayley "as is," without being completed. The painting was both praised for its vivacity and questioned for its incomplete state by those who knew the story of its making. Hayley gave the portrait to John Romney, the artist’s son, around 1820, and it was later owned by Romney’s granddaughter Elizabeth.
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