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    Romney
    Romney
    Romney
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    Romney

    By C. Lewis (Charles Lewis) Hind

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    PublisherArchive Classics
    Release dateNov 27, 2013
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      Romney - C. Lewis (Charles Lewis) Hind

      The Project Gutenberg EBook of Romney, by C. Lewis Hind

      This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with

      almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or

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      with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.net

      Title: Romney

      Author: C. Lewis Hind

      Release Date: August 1, 2011 [EBook #36932]

      Language: English

      *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK ROMNEY ***

      Produced by Al Haines

      MASTERPIECES

      IN COLOUR

      EDITED BY

      T. LEMAN HARE

      ROMNEY

      PLATE I.—THE HORSLEY CHILDREN. From the picture

      in the possession of Messrs. Thos. Agnew & Sons. (Frontispiece)

      Few painters have rivalled Romney in expressing the simplicity and naïveté of children. These portraits of Master George and Miss Charlotte Horsley are excellent examples of his mastery of an artless pose, and of the reticence of his colour. How delightfully the flowers tell against the white dresses.

      PLATE I.—THE HORSLEY CHILDREN.

      ROMNEY

      BY C. LEWIS HIND

      ILLUSTRATED WITH EIGHT

      REPRODUCTIONS IN COLOUR

      LONDON: T. C. & E. C. JACK

      NEW YORK: FREDERICK A. STOKES CO.

      1907

      CONTENTS

      LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

      Plate

      I. The Horsley Children . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Frontispiece

      From the picture in the possession of

      Messrs. Thos. Agnew & Sons

      II. Sketch Portrait of Lady Hamilton From the picture in the National Gallery

      III. Mrs. Mark Currie From the picture in the National Gallery

      IV. The Parson's Daughter: a Portrait From the picture in the National Gallery

      V. Lady with a Child From the picture in the National Gallery

      VI. Mrs. Robinson—Perdita From the picture in the Wallace Collection

      VII. Miss Benedetta Ramus From the picture in the possession of the

      Hon. W. F. D. Smith

      VIII. Miss Ramus From the picture in the possession of the

      Hon. W. F. D. Smith

      Romney

      CHAPTER I

      THREE PERIODS OF ROMNEY'S LIFE

      High over the western boundary of Cavendish Square rose a tripod wooden scaffolding, supporting a gigantic crane cutting the arch of the sky; on windy days the smoke from the engine was blown upwards into space. Below, twentieth-century mansions were growing on the site of old Harcourt House, for Cavendish Square, like the rest of London, was suffering an architectural change into something strange and new.

      Some of the eighteenth-century houses remain, and as I sought No. 32, in the early summer of 1907, I wondered if this dwelling of memories had escaped the builder. Abundant memories! Into that house, through the later years of the eighteenth century, passed the flower of English loveliness, breeding, valour, brains, wit and frailty. For this was Romney's house, with the large painting-room at the back, which he, greatly daring, rented in 1775, to the satisfaction of the landlord, whose property had been untenanted since the death of Francis Cotes, R.A., five years before. Soon the great Sir Joshua showed signs of Olympian jealousy at the success of the raw man from the North, reserved, silent, moody, whose acquaintance with the beau monde did not go beyond his studio door; who worked by night on designs for great or heroic art, and who had a genius for fixing the fleeting loveliness of a woman's face so simply and fragrantly that we liken a fine Romney to a rosebud arranged in a pattern of artless leaves.

      PLATE II.—SKETCH

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