George Romney. A complete catalogue of his paintings

London: Yale University Press, 2015.

Three quarto volumes in hard cloth with the excellent dust-jackets and pictorial slipcase. As new. Catalogue raisonné comprising circa 2,000 illustrations, including many in colour. Slipcase rubbed in places and one corner bumped.George Romney, who died in Kendal in 1802, was one of the most celebrated portrait painters of his time, along with Sir Joshua Reynolds and Thomas Gainsborough. He was born in Dalton-in-Furness in 1734 and after learning his craft of cabinet-making there and in Lancaster, he was apprenticed to the portrait painter Christopher Steele in 1755. In 1757 he broke his apprenticeship and set up on his own in a studio in Kendal