Portrait of Richard Cumberland is a c.1776 portrait painting by the British artist George Romney of the playwright and diplomat Richard Cumberland.[1]
| Portrait of Richard Cumberland | |
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| Artist | George Romney |
| Year | c.1776 |
| Type | Oil on canvas, portrait |
| Dimensions | 124.5 cm × 99.1 cm (49.0 in × 39.0 in) |
| Location | National Portrait Gallery, London |
Cumberland was a popular writer whose plays such as The West Indian had appeared in London's West End.[2] [3] During the late 1770s he went on a mission to Madrid in an unsuccessful attempt to prevent Spanish entry into the American War of Independence. Romney was a top portraitist of the Georgian era. Today the work is in the collection of the National Portrait Gallery on Trafalgar Square having been purchased from the sitter's grandson in 1857.[4]
References
edit- ^ Kidson p.93
- ^ Schwanecke p.201
- ^ O'Quinn p.218
- ^ https://www.npg.org.uk/collections/search/portraitExtended/mw01669/Richard-Cumberland?
Bibliography
edit- Cross, David. A Striking Likeness: The Life of George Romney. Routledge, 2019.
- Kidson, Alex. George Romney, 1734-1802. National Portrait Gallery, 2002.
- O'Quinn, Daniel. Entertaining Crisis in the Atlantic Imperium, 1770–1790. JHU Press, 2011.
- Schwanecke, Christine. A Narratology of Drama: Dramatic Storytelling in Theory, History, and Culture from the Renaissance to the Twenty-First Century. Walter de Gruyter, 2022.
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