Sublime and infernal reveries : George Romney and the creation of an eighteenth-century history painter
The image of George Romney presented in his early biographies is of a successful society portraitist by day but the creator of `sublime and infernal reveries' at night by candlelight. Today these passionate designs from literature are characterized as proto- Romantic but, paradoxically, they we...
Main Author: | May, Suzanne E. |
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Liverpool John Moores University
2007
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Online Access: | http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.436570 |
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