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Romney

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Rom·ney  (rmn), George 1734-1802.
British painter of portraits and historical scenes, such as Death of General Wolfe (1763).
Romney [ˈrɒmnɪ ˈrʌm-]
n
(Biographies / Romney, George (1734-1802) M, English, ARTS AND CRAFTS: painter) George. 1734-1802, English painter, who painted more than 50 portraits of Lady Hamilton in various historical roles


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Pierre to Chateaubriand, from Chateaubriand to Victor Hugo; it has no doubt some obscure relationship to those pantheistic theories which have greatly occupied people's minds in many modern readings of philosophy; it makes as much difference between the modern and the earlier landscape art as there is between the roughly outlined masks of a Byzantine mosaic and a portrait by Reynolds or Romney.
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Portraits by Romney, seen through glass, have something of their pink, mellow look, their blooming softness, as of apricots hanging upon a red wall in the afternoon sun.
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What with her clothes, and her arch delicate face, which showed exquisitely pink beneath hair turning grey, she was astonishingly like an eighteenth-century masterpiece--a Reynolds or a Romney.
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