Category:Lady Hamilton as Ambassadress (George Romney - Blanton Museum of Art)

**Lady Hamilton as Ambassadress**
	painting by George Romney in Blanton Museum of Art
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Instance of	painting;
Made from material	oil paint; canvas (painting support);
Genre	portrait;
Location	Blanton Museum of Art, Austin, Travis County, Texas
Creator	George Romney;
Collection	Blanton Museum of Art;
Inventory number	1991.108 (Blanton Museum of Art);
Inception	1791;
Width	133.1 cm;
Height	159.1 cm;
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Lady Hamilton as Ambassadress (George Romney - Blanton Museum of Art)

George Romney: Lady Hamilton as Ambassadress

Artist



Description	British painter and portraitist
Date of birth/death	15 December 1734 (in Julian calendar)	15 November 1802
Location of birth/death	Dalton-in-Furness	Kendal
Work location	Paris; Parma; Rome; Venice; Kendal; Lancaster; London; York
Authority file	: Q371280 VIAF: 39646668 ISNI: 0000000081189431 ULAN: 500115779 LCCN: n50048289 NLA: 35460763 WGA: r/romney Open Library: OL1801204A Oxford Dict.: 24051 GND: 118749609 SELIBR: 310718 SUDOC: 028906497 BNF: 149564198 NKC: ola2003192340 BNE: XX1241872 KulturNav: 70a6cdf2-3adb-497b-a89d-b97fdf60b1eb RKD: 67915 J9U: 987007276427405171 Koninklijke: 071093184 WorldCat

Title

Lady Hamilton

Object type

painting

Genre

portrait

Description

Portrait of Emma, Lady Hamilton (1765-1815)
Caption from the museum: "The daughter of a blacksmith, Emma Hart (1765-1815) sat for this portrait on September 6, 1791, the day of her wedding to Sir William Hamilton, George III’s envoy to Naples. She was twenty-six, and Sir William was sixty years old. Behind Emma in her white dress is an erupting Mount Vesuvius that references her husband’s publication on the volcano.

The painting also marks the end of Emma’s ten-year association with George Romney, one of the leading portrait painters of the day. Emma had captivated him with her beauty from the time she had first visited his London studio as a model in 1781. During her rise in society as a gentleman’s mistress, Romney had painted as many as fifty-seven portraits of Emma in various guises and attitudes. This portrait was to be his last depiction of her."

Date

1791

Medium

oil on canvas

Dimensions

height: 159.1 cm (62.6 in)

; width: 133.1 cm (52.4 in)

Collection

Blanton Museum of Art

	Parent institution	University of Texas at Austin
	Location	Austin, United States of America
	Coordinates	30° 16′ 52″ N, 97° 44′ 15″ W
	Established	1963
	Website	www.blantonmuseum.org
	Authority file	: Q2906140 VIAF: 149136551 ISNI: 0000000453742577 LCCN: n2005085218 SUDOC: 115008829 NKC: ko20241222326 WorldCat

Accession number

1991.108 (Blanton Museum of Art)

Object history

1991: bequeathed to Blanton Museum of Art by Jack G. Taylor

Notes

In the collection of the Blanton Museum. One of many portraits of Emma by Romney.

References

http://utw10658.utweb.utexas.edu/items/show/2737

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