Romney Society Transactions
Transactions can be purchased from Martin Orrom email: [email protected]
Volume 1Reynolds and Romney: The Anatomy of a Rivalry by Alex Kidson.
The Image of Shakespeare in Romney’s Time by Professor Philip Edwards. The Folger Shakespeare Library Collection by Yvonne Romney Dixon. A Note on the Romney Collection at Yale University by Barry Maclean Eltham. Romney Paintings in the Yale Centre for British Art by David A. Brenneman. George Romney: Patterns of Friendship by David Cross. Christopher Steele (1733-1767) by Mary E Burkett. (1996) Volume 2The Tate’s Romneys: a record of fashion and patronage by Tabitha Barber.
Mrs Trotter of Bush (1788-9) by Mary Bustin. The Gower Family by Christian Barnes. George Romney and William Lewthwaite by Tim Cockerill. George Romney’s Pupils by David Cross. The Joseph Wright Archive of Drawings by and associated with the Artist by Jane Wallis. (1997) Volume 3Barry Maclean-Eltham: A Tribute by Martin Orrom.
Barry Maclean-Eltham and the Romney Society by Alex Kidson. George Romney’s Grand tour by Martin Postle. The Price of Friendship? Romney and Sir Robert Strange by Helen Smailes. The Conservation and X-Radiography of the Portrait of Lady Rouse Boughton by George Romney by Edwin Bowes. George Romney and the Idea of a British School by Elizabeth Allen. (1998) Volume 4The Mind and Soul of Romney’s Art and the Poussin Connection by Jean Wallis.
Katherine Read: A Woman Painter in Romney’s London by Margery Morgan. Romney’s Kendal by John Satchell. The Tragic Muses of Romney and Reynolds: Eighteenth Century Theatrical Portraiture by Glenn R. Cooke. (1999) Volume 5Lord Iveagh’s Romneys at Kenwood by Amina Wright.
The Hermit of Eartham: William Hayley and his Friendship with George Romney by Rebecca Blass. “The Dome of his Mausoleum”: Commemorating the 18th Century Artist by Cherry Elizabeth Sandover. George Romney’s Pedigree by Tim Cockerill. George Romney’s Early Candlelight Paintings by Elizabeth E Barker. Muses and Mythology-a Synopsis by Professor Aileen Ribeiro. (2000) Volume 6Forcible Sentiments and Ancient Tales: Flaxman, Romney and the Sharing of Inspiration by Sarah Symmons.
Allan Ramsay by James Holloway. Viewing the Elite Family at the Annual Exhibition of 1767 by Catherine Tite. Everything is Flux : George Romney- by Himself by Jean Wallis. (2001) Volume 7‘How to be Formal without Really Trying’: George Romney and Pictorial form by Gerhard Charles Rump.
George Romney, Robert Potter and ‘the Painter’s Poet’ by Suzanne E May. Tennyson’s ’Romney’s Remorse’ by Robert Inglesfield. Joseph Wilton and the Death of General Wolfe by Janet Simmonds. (2002) Volume 8The Romney Sketchbooks in Public Collections edited by Yvonne Romney Dixon and Alex Kidson (This is a double volume describing 57 sketchbooks around the world and includes 19 figures).
(2003) Volume 9‘On Mersey’s Favoured Side’ The Society of Arts in Liverpool 1769-1774 by Kevin Littlewood.
George Romney: the Earliest Biography by David A. Cross. Romney in France by Olivier Meslay. Romney Since 2002 by Alex Kidson. (2004) Volume 10"The delight of all Persons of reputation and taste" Vauxhall Gardens 1661-1859 by David Coke.
‘Tuching the Times too nearly’ George Romney in 1793 by Suzanne E May. Romney’s House on Holly Bush Hill in Hampstead by Jean Wallis. The Art of Daniel Gardner by Gillian Forrester. (2005) Volume 11A Palette of George Romney by Edwin Ahlstrom.
“Mr Raeburn’s style is freedom itself” 250 years since the birth of Sir Henry Raeburn R.A. (1756-1823) by Stephen Lloyd. Gainsborough and Lord Dartmouth by Hugh Belsey. A Possible Identification for Romney’s “Portrait of a Lady and Child” by Heather Ewing. (2006) Volume 12Romney Revealed: Rediscovering Lord Warwick’s Children by K. Smaling Wood.
Romney to Wordsworth: the Spirit of the Age by Philip Edwards. Moving East, with special reference to Katherine Read in India by Margery Morgan. The Romney Pedigree-Part 2 by Tim Cockerill. ‘Sublime and Infernal Reveries’ abstract of the doctoral thesis by Suzanne May. (2007) Volume 13Three Rackett Family Portraits by George Romney by Gwen Yarker.
Daulby’s Albums by Peter Urquhart. Genoa: a stage of the Grand Tour, comparing the experiences of George Romney and other travellers by Giulia Savio. A Romney Estate map by Richard Hall. (2008) Volume 14Flaxman and his work for Wedgwood by Gaye Blake-Roberts.
Warrington’s Hamlet: a portrait of Hamlet Winstanley, 1694-1756 by Kevin Littlewood. William Kent, the first design ‘guru’ by Peter Osborne. (2009) Volume 15The Kendal Sketchbook 1763-71 (a boxed set in two parts). Part 1 Catalogue : a commentary on each page with illustrations by Dr Yvonne Romney Dixon
Part 2 The Sketches : a complete reproduction of the sketchbook of 104 pages (by permission of Kendal Town Council). (2010) Volume 16Joshua Reynolds and the Ornamental Style by Professor David Mannings.
The Correspondence between William Hodges and William Hayley c. 1793-96 by Dr Simon Macdonald. Zoffany in Eighteenth Century India by Charles Greig. (2011) Volume 17Westminster Abbey: the Nation’s best Sculpture Gallery by Anne Middleton
Romney: what remains to be done by Alex Kidson. The Poetics and Politics of Romney’s “Milton and his daughters”1793 by Kerstin Maria Pahl. Thomas Barrow: portrait painter, contemporary and friend of Romney by Helen Quartermaine. (2012) Volume 18Who’s who in Lancaster 1765-1767: George Romney’s 47 sitters by Helen Quartermaine.
Lady Hamilton as the Comic Muse: ‘oh what a tangled web we weave... .’ or The detective work of a Romney cataloguer by Alex Kidson. Romney Studies since the Society was formed in 1994 by Martin Orrom. (2013) Volume 19Marketing Miss Charlotte: Martin Colnaghi and George Romney at the turn of the 20th century by Alycen Mitchell and Barbara Pezzini.
Wild Humours versus Graphic Inventions: The drawings of Romney & Gainsborough by Deanna Petherbridge. George Romney and Thelassie by Morton D. Paley. John Boydell and his Shakespeare Gallery by Vivienne Painting. (2014) Volume 20The Romney Plaque on Kendal Town Hall Philip Chatfield in Conversation with the editor.
Sculpture and Strawberries: The Life of Anne Damer by Richard Webb. Secrets of a Romney Portrait Revealed: The Conservation and Technical Examination of the Portrait of Stratford Canning by Vanessa Andrew and David Crombie. The Brilliant and Eccentric Monsieur Liotard, Pastellist of Distinction by Mary Anne Stevens. (2015) Volume 21Every Picture Tells a Story: A Family Chronicle in George Romney's 'Lady Mary Every' By Janelle Montgomery.
Romney's Mrs Gardner By Neil Jeffares. Arcadia by design: A preparatory drawing for 'The Clavering Children' by Rose Isepp. George Romney's 'Serena Reading' by Morton D. Paley (2016) Volume 22The letters or George Romney.
Edited by Alex Kidson. The Society is very grateful for financial support towards the costs of this volume from The Aurelius Trust. (2017) Volume 23 |
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George Romney and the Mary Stuart Story by Peter Fisher
The Horror of the Abyss : The Feminine Sublime in the Portraiture of George Romney and the Young Philosopher (1798) by Charlotte Smith. Offered by Val Derbyshire.
A Portrait of Bonnie Prince Charlie by Allan Ramsay. Offered by Lucinda Lax.
Flaxman the accidental revolutionary, by David Bindman.
(2018)
The Horror of the Abyss : The Feminine Sublime in the Portraiture of George Romney and the Young Philosopher (1798) by Charlotte Smith. Offered by Val Derbyshire.
A Portrait of Bonnie Prince Charlie by Allan Ramsay. Offered by Lucinda Lax.
Flaxman the accidental revolutionary, by David Bindman.
(2018)
Volume 24
Damsels Playing with Timbrels : George Romney‘s Four - Leaved Screen by Olivia Ghosh.
Portraiture as Remembrance in 18 th century Britain. By Emily Knight.
George Romney‘s Visit to the Robert Udney Collection. By Morton Paley.
Copying George Romney. By Lauren Moore.
In Search of James Cranke the Younger(1746-1826). By Alex Kidson.
(2019)
Portraiture as Remembrance in 18 th century Britain. By Emily Knight.
George Romney‘s Visit to the Robert Udney Collection. By Morton Paley.
Copying George Romney. By Lauren Moore.
In Search of James Cranke the Younger(1746-1826). By Alex Kidson.
(2019)
Volume 25
George Romney
A Complete Catalogue of his Paintings Supplement 2015-2020.
By Alex Kidson.
Available to purchase for £12 a copy to include postage
(2020)
A Complete Catalogue of his Paintings Supplement 2015-2020.
By Alex Kidson.
Available to purchase for £12 a copy to include postage
(2020)
Volume 26
Unshackled: A Technical Study of the Portrait of Lady Willoughby de Broke. By Derek Lintala.
Maclean Eltham Essay Prize Winner 2022
Jane, Duchess of Gordon, hated rival of the Whig Duchess of Devonshire. By Heather Carroll
The Mystery of the Warwick Romney and his Father. By Adam Busiakiewicz
Mother and Child Reunion, George Romney’s portrait of Mrs. Thomas Carwardine and her son Thomas, and Romney’s abiding friendship with the Revd. Thomas Carwardine. By Stephen Miller
(2021)
Maclean Eltham Essay Prize Winner 2022
Jane, Duchess of Gordon, hated rival of the Whig Duchess of Devonshire. By Heather Carroll
The Mystery of the Warwick Romney and his Father. By Adam Busiakiewicz
Mother and Child Reunion, George Romney’s portrait of Mrs. Thomas Carwardine and her son Thomas, and Romney’s abiding friendship with the Revd. Thomas Carwardine. By Stephen Miller
(2021)
Transactions can be purchased from Martin Orrom email: [email protected]
