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The Romney Society is dedicated to learning about Eighteenth Century Art and Artists, in particular George Romney. Through a programme of lectures, visits and publications, the Society considers the visual arts of the time and the lives and achievements of artists. If you share our interest in the period you would be very welcome to join the Society and get involved.

A centre for Romney Studies​

The Romney Society has acquired the David Cross archive of George Romney. The Society has placed it in the Kendal Record Office where it is freely available to the public for study. The archive is the result of more than ten years’ work whilst Dr. Cross was working on his recently published biography of George Romney – "A Striking Likeness", (2000). The purchase of the archive was made possible by a generous donation by a life member of the Romney Society, Glyn Hopkin who is a collector of Romney paintings. He said that he was very pleased to be helping to put the archive in the public domain.

​Kendal now becomes a centre for Romney studies. Not only does it have many portraits, drawings and sketchbooks in collections open to the public at Abbot Hall, Kendal Town Hall and Sizergh Castle but there are further paintings and sketchbooks nearby in Lancaster and Barrow-in-Furness. In Kendal the Carnegie Public Library has a complete set of fifteen Romney biographies dating from 1809 to 2000.

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Alderman Thomas Wilson
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Mrs. Jane Wilson

The Society will continue to build up the archive in the Record Office for the benefit of all those studying the arts of the eighteenth century.  The society will be grateful for any offers to add copies of theses or copies of original Romney material to the main Romney archive.
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Where to see the works of George Romney:

Paintings in or near Kendal:​ Romney's paintings can be viewed at Abbot Hall, Kendal Town Hall and Sizergh Castle. 

There are further paintings and sketchbooks nearby in Lancaster and Barrow-in-Furness.

Paintings in the UK and the rest of the World
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Pictures on this page by permission of Kendal Town Council
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The following Companies and Museums are associated with, or members of, the Romney Society
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Art Institute Chicago
Gainsboroughs House Sudbury
Taft Museum of Art Ohio
Wordsworth Trust
Barber Institute Birmingham
Getty Research Institute LA
Protest Humanities Index Kentucky
Yale Center for British Art New Haven
Royal Academy of Arts London
Huntington Library San Marino
Thomas J Watson Library The Met NYC
Victoria and Albert Museum London
David Wade Fine Art Harrogate
British Museum London
Kendal Library
National Portrait Gallery London
Guildhall Library London
Sackler Library Oxford
Clark Institute Library Williamstown
Lakeland Arts Trust
Thomas Cooper Library South Carolina
National Museum of Wales Cardiff
Ingalls Library Cleveland Museum of Art
Frick Art Reference Library NYC
Iniversitats Bibliothek Heidelberg
Abbott and Holder London
Tate Gallery London
Fitzwilliam Museum Cambridge
Harvard Art Museum Fogg
Courtauld Institute of Art London
Hirsch Library MFA Houston
Paul Mellon Centre London
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  • Home
  • News
  • Diary
  • George Romney
    • About the Artist
    • Biography
    • Sketch Books >
      • Kendal Town Hall Sketch Book
      • Abbot Hall Art Gallery Sketch Book No2
      • A&H Sketch Book 1
      • A&H Sketch Book 2
      • A&H Sketch Book 3
    • Bibliography
    • Missing Romneys
    • Where to see
    • Work examples
  • The Society
    • The Romney Society
    • Lectures & Visits
    • Previous Lectures
    • Publications
    • Transactions
    • Links
    • Do I own a Romney
    • Officers
    • Join
  • Contact