Romney

On March 14, 1762, George Romney rides out of Kendal with fifty pounds in his saddle-bags—and his wife and children behind him. London, he hopes, holds the intricate key to fame.

C. Lewis Hind’s biography follows Romney from the north of England into the crowded artistic life of late-eighteenth-century London, where a bold move to Cavendish Square brings a stream of sitters to his studio. Reserved and self-doubting, Romney is torn between portraiture, which sustains him, and the “heroic art” he believes is his true calling. His success draws the fashionable world—and the jealousy of Sir Joshua Reynolds—while the life he has left behind grows ever more distant. Can the man who captures the fleeting loveliness of a face also claim the larger artistic glory he seeks?

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