Finding The George Romney Sketch In A New York Dumpster Hudson, New York, is known as an artist’s town. But the discovery of the George Romney sketch in a local dumpster still came as an utter ...
Rifling through the trash in Hudson, New York last year, they chanced upon a discarded pen and ink sketch that turned out to be by the renowned English portrait painter George Romney. The unlikely ...
George Romney was a British artist known for his portrait painting of society figures. Born in 1734 in Beckside, Lancashire, England, he died in 1802 in Kendal, Cumbria, England. Romney spent much of ...
Jean-Antoine Houdon’s six-foot-tall sculpture Diana the Huntress (1776–95) spent much of the past five years in a box while construction workers hammered away nearby.