Polite Music Gallery5-Portrait of a Man with a Violin and Cello

Portrait of a Man with a Violin and Cello

George Romney (1734–1802) 
Portrait of a Man with a Violin and Cello
ca. 1758–60
Oil on canvas

Romney was a violinist as well as a painter, and this unidentified sitter may have been a fellow amateur with whom he played. The portrait dates from early in Romney’s career, when he was a provincial painter working in his native Lancashire. 

YALE CENTER FOR BRITISH ART, PAUL MELLON COLLECTION 

B1981.25.541