George Romney
Lady Romney
mid- to late 1780s127 x 101.6 cm
Oil on canvas
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Robert Lehman Collection, 1975
Literature
Charles Sterling, Maryan W. Ainsworth, Charles Talbot, Martha Wolff, Egbert Haverkamp-Begemann, Jonathan Brown, John Hayes, The Robert Lehman Collection, New York, Princeton, 1998, nr. 41
Provenance
commissioned in 1788 by the sitter's husband, Sir William Lemon, first baronet, Carclew, Cornwall
by descent through his youngest daughter, Caroline-Mathilda, to his grandson Lieutenant Colonel Arthur Tremayne (1827-1905), Carclew, 1882-1904 or later
with Lewis and Simmons, London, 1919
with Duveen Brothers, New York
Edward T. Stotesbury, Phildelphia, by 1932
Stotesbury sale, Parke-Bernet, New York, 18 November 1944, nr. 8
purchased by Robert Lehman at the Stotesbury sale in 1944
Other works by George Romney
Portrait of Elizabeth Burgoyne, half-length, in a white dress
Miss Willoughby
1781-83
1781-83
Mrs. Davenport
1782-84
1782-84
Mrs. Bryan Cooke
Miss Mary Finch-Hatton
1788
1788