English painter, the rival of Joshua Reynolds and friend of the poet William Hayley; he contributed three paintings to Boydell's Shakespeare Gallery (1791).

REFERENCES TO George Romney:

Robert Plumer Ward to Peter George Patmore, 20 December 1831 in My Friends and Acquaintance: being Memorials, Mind-portraits, and Personal Recollections of Deceased Celebrities of the Nineteenth Century; with Selections from their Unpublished Letters 3 vols (London: Saunders and Otley, 1854)

Charles Lamb to Samuel Rogers, [21 December 1833?] in The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb. Letters (London: Methuen and Co., 1905)

Charles Lamb to Samuel Rogers, [21 December, 1833] in Samuel Rogers and his Contemporaries 2 Vols (London: Smith, Elder & Co., 1889)