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Lady Lemon (1747–1823)

mid- to late 1780s
On view at The Met Fifth Avenue in Gallery 957
Jane Buller, the sitter in this elegant portrait, married William Lemon in 1771 and bore ten children. Lord Lemon commissioned George Romney to paint half-length portraits of himself and his wife in 1788, when Lady Lemon was forty-years old. She sat for the painting on six occasions in Romney’s London studio. Posing the sitter in an armchair against a landscape background became a common convention in later Georgian British portraiture. Romney portrays his subject with a gentle touch.

Artwork Details

Object Information
  • Title: Lady Lemon (1747–1823)
  • Artist: George Romney (British, Beckside, Lancashire 1734–1802 Kendal, Cumbria)
  • Date: mid- to late 1780s
  • Medium: Oil on canvas
  • Dimensions: 50 × 40 in. (127 × 101.6 cm)
    Framed: 59 3/4 in. × 49 3/4 in. × 4 1/2 in. (151.8 × 126.4 × 11.4 cm)
    Frame: 59 3/4 × 49 3/4 in. (151.8 × 126.4 cm)
    Rabbet: 50 1/2 × 40 1/2 × 3/4 in. (128.3 × 102.9 × 1.9 cm)
    Sight: 49 1/2 × 39 3/4 in. (125.7 × 101 cm)
  • Classification: Paintings
  • Credit Line: Robert Lehman Collection, 1975
  • Object Number: 1975.1.235
  • Curatorial Department: The Robert Lehman Collection

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Mourning Figures: possibly a copy after a fresco by Cimabue, George Romney British, Pen and brown ink over traces of black chalk
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Giovanni Cimabue
ca. 1773–75
The Rev. William Atkinson, wearing a broad-brimmed hat, George Romney British, Graphite
The Rev. William Atkinson, wearing a broad-brimmed hat
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The Reverend William Atkinson
ca. 1760
Study of two figures: one seated, the other standing (recto). Study of a head looking upwards (verso), George Romney British, Graphite with traces of pen and brown ink at upper right
Study of two figures: one seated, the other standing (recto). Study of a head looking upwards (verso)
George Romney
ca. 1777
John Howard Visiting a Lazaretto (recto); Titania and Her Fairies (verso), George Romney British, Pen and black ink, brush and gray wash, over graphite
John Howard Visiting a Lazaretto (recto); Titania and Her Fairies (verso)
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John Howard
ca. 1790–92
Emma Hamilton
George Romney
ca. 1900

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