George Romney

MRS. ROBINSON AS PERDITA.
Bell's Miniature Series of Painters
ROWLEY CLEEVE
LONDON GEORGE BELL & SONS 1908
First Published, 1901. Reprinted, 1904, 1908.
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George Romney was a Cumberland lad, born in 1734, of parents who were in humble circumstances living at Dalton in the Fells.
His father was an ingenious man who lived on his own farm as a yeoman, but who followed also the pursuits of a joiner and cabinet-maker, and who was one of the first persons in the north to see and make use of the newly imported wood mahogany, from which he made a chest of drawers out of a sailor's chest brought from the West Indies.
Romney inherited much of his father's ingenuity, and as a lad set about making a fiddle, which he completed in later years and retained all his life. It was a sound instrument of really good tone, and the artist himself played well upon it.