[mairdie]

Not as famous as Gainsborough, Reynolds or Lawrence, but very sympathetic to his models. My preference is the early work. But I keep finding a sense of the color that Turner will eventually use in Romney's backgrounds.

[mairdie]

PING to British portraiture to Beethoven

[cartan]

I call your Beethoven and raise some Vivaldi…also with some amazing portraits.

[Hyman Roth]

Related to Mittens?

[Migraine]

What a great show! Thanks.

[miss marmelstein]

He too painted the gorgeous Emma Hamilton.

[C210N]

Thanks for sharing this... extremely well done, and the perfect prescription for this week’s nuttiness relief.

[Bonemaker]

Art major?

[lee martell]

His portraits have an approachable aspect, an easy intimacy, that reminds me of Mary Cassatt’s work.
Also similar to Cassatt, Romney’s figures have a luminous quality from deep within. Look at them. Don’t many of the figures look like delicate lamps? It’s a creative way to feature them without using too many distracting colors.

His painting technique looks somewhat similar to the eggshell tempera Dutch method of Jan Van Eck, but with heavy applications of paint.
Almost an impasto manner as seen on the faces.

[Sirius Lee]

Thanks for posting this. Ludwig's second is often neglected, but despite being overshadowed by his epic next Symphony, this youthful Op. 36 is already far more adventurous than anything by Papa Haydn.

Please do a video of the 1rst movement of this youthful Schubert Symphony - another work in transition from early style to his mature Romanticism. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cdLuvGsjwlA

[NRx]

Magnificent! Thanks for posting.

[BigEdLB]

Turner was the master. As a composer I did a suite of music based on Turners paintings. Can give a link to the music if anyone intrested

[Blennos]

Beautiful blend of music and portraiture. I felt myself transported back to the late 18th century.

[jmaroneps37]

Delecto’s great grandfather or something? Who cares?

[generally]

Thank you so much for this!

You are reducing my ignorance one video at a time. Ha.

I’ve never heard of this guy as far as I can recall. (G Romney, not Beethoven. B I’ve heard of!) I’m undecided on whether I like him as an artist. I may have to watch a few more times. What I did find interesting was the variety of poses and backgrounds and props. Some seemed especially odd and I kind of liked the “oddness”. Like the guy with some of his buttons unbuttoned. I like that the portraits weren’t “formulaic”.

[Albion Wilde]

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[Albion Wilde]

I really enjoyed this selection of portraits. This painter with the retroactively unfortunate name certainly had a great gift for drapery, draftsmanship and form; a little less so for composition., but not bad.

I loved how he was unstinting about depicting some flaws, like poochy tummies on many of the men, but pushed his highlighting of other things like female complexions, buzoomies and gauzy white garments to an almost chiaroscuro ideal, bordering on abstraction. The mother and child portraits were affectively lovely.

I also enjoyed the range of styles, from tight to sketchy and dauby in what I assume is some of the later finished work.

He looked rather ghey in his young self-portrait, as did many of his male subjects; but it was an ambiguously fashionable era, so who knows? (To quote Fred Armisen quoting Joy Behar, “So what, who cares?”) He looked more solid in his older selfie.

Lovely presentation, mairdie, thanks.

[mairdie]

Someone commented on YouTube about identification, so I id’d the first minute

1750, William Watson
1759, Painter Thomas Barrow
1760, A Woman
1760, Walter Strickland
1760, Charlotte Gunning, later Mrs Stephen Digby
1760, Mrs John Daws
1760, Mrs Marton and her son Oliver
1762, William Strickland in his library
1763, Thomas Greene
1764, Elizabeth, Lady Blunt
1765, James Ainsley
1765, Mary Hutton Rawlinson
1765, Mrs James Fletcher Fell
1766, Brothers Artists Peter and James Romney
1767, Peter Wodehouse with a dog
1767, Reverend Richard Stubl
1769, Sir John Chetwood and Lady Chetwood