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Romney
Clavering
Children (1777)
George Romney (1734-1802)
oil on canvas, 62 x 49 1/2 inches
Adele S. Browning Memorial Collection 78.20.35
Romney's Clavering Children portrays
Thomas John and Catherine Mary, children of George Clavering
of Greencroft, in Durham. The Huntington has thirteen
works by Romney, and this is one of the finest from
a phase in that artist's career otherwise unrepresented.
In this lyrical composition of pastel tones, the youngsters
and their dogs move gently through an undefined landscape.
When he painted it, Romney had just returned from a
period of study in Rome and the graceful poses of the
figures reflect his familiarity with classical sculpture.
The attitudes of the children also effectively capture
their adolescent state as well as their gender roles
as master of animals and nurturer. This painting was
one of forty-two pictures--Dutch, French, Italian as
well as English--bequeathed to the Huntington by Mildred
Browning Green and Judge Lucius Peyton Green in 1978
in memory of Mrs. Green'smother, Adele Browning
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