Manuscript Sketch Book and draft letters

Item author: George Romney
Item date: 1772
(this is an approximate date)
Grant Value: 1,960
Item cost: 5,880
Item date acquired: 1994
Item institution: National Portrait Gallery
Town/City: London

Sketches in pen and brown ink, with occasional wash; several drawings are clearly trial poses and compositions, but roughly twice as many are for subjects pictures, often no more than the rough outline of a body. The draft letters deal mainly with consigning finished pictures, inviting payment for them or discussing alterations. Ilustrated at p.13 of AR

Item Provenance
William Roberts 1862 - 1940 author of Romney: a biographical and critical essay with a catalogue raisonn of his works