Self-portrait, George Romney, 1784, National Portrait Gallery, London

Lecturer Dr. David Cross

Born in 1734 in Dalton-in-Furness, George Romney has been hailed as the greatest Cumbrian-born artist. After moving to London, he had great success as a portrait painter rivaling Reynolds and Gainsborough. He was brilliant at taking a likeness, especially of women and children. A member of London’s radical intelligentsia, he became a founding father of neo-classicism and a harbinger of romanticism.

Dr David A. Cross is an art historian and author living in Cumbria. He won Lakeland Book of the Year awards for his biography of George Romney, A Striking Likeness.  He is a past president of The Arts Society Cumbria and a vice-president of The Romney Society.

NB Lunch will be served after the lecture, BOOKING ESSENTIAL, please contact us here by email