Emma Hart, later Lady Hamilton, as "Nature" by George Romney

Description: Emma Hart, later Lady Hamilton, as "Nature"This is a Giclee Museum Quality Print made either by Fine Art America (or Cutler Miles) in which Archival Pigment Inks were used that are Resistant to Fading and Allow the Image to Retain the Tonalities And Hues of the Original Painting. DIMENSIONS: APPROX. 11X14 inches *Will be shipped USPS to buyer: laid flat, between two carboard pieces, in a secure, padded envelope within three days of payment having been received. A tracking number will be emailed to the customer. Emma & George Romney The Hon. Charles Greville (1749-1809) took the 16 year-old Emma Hart into his 'care'. She became his mistress and was installed at a suburban house in Paddington Green in the name of Mrs. Emma Hart. In April 1782, Greville took his new mistress to George Romney to sit for her portrait. Though Greville hoped to commission a series of pictures of Emma as a commercial speculation it was Emma and Romney who had the most to gain from this artistic meeting. Emma captured Romney's imagination to such an extent that he later described her as 'the divine lady ... superior to all womankind' (Letter, 19 June 1791). From their first meetings in 1782, Emma occupied the position of artist's muse. Romney was drawn to her ideal beauty, which combined the regular features of ancient Greek sculpture with the luxuriant chestnut hair of one of Rubens' voluptuous women. Emma also had an intense physical presence and the ability to hold poses and expressions like a professional model. Moreover she was vivacious, loving and innately able to please and flatter the men she became involved with eitherpersonally or professionally. Romney was so obsessed by Emma that it became increasingly hard for him to engage creatively with more routine commissions, decisively altering his portrait practice. Over the next nine years, he nurtured Emma's talent and capitalized on her beauty. In the four years between April 1782 and March 1786 alone, Emma sat to Romney well over 100 times. The outcome of their relationship was a sequence of fancy portraits and literary subjects with dramatic heroines -- over sixty paintings which take Emma as their inspiration or defining feature. Not just a passive model but evidently involved and engaged in the compositional process, images of Emma fall into four basic categories: real-life compositions; single-figure personifications of allegorical, mythological or religious types; the use of Emma as a model in more complex, multi-figure genre scenes and the many unfinished sketches and têtes d'expression which characterize the combined talents of the artist and Emma whose animated qualities would later manifest themselves in her theatrical 'Attitudes'.

Price: 50.5 USD

Location: North Royalton, Ohio

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