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Portrait of Richard Cumberland

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Portrait of Richard Cumberland
ArtistGeorge Romney
Yearc.1776
TypeOil on canvas, portrait
Dimensions124.5 cm × 99.1 cm (49.0 in × 39.0 in)
LocationNational Portrait Gallery, London

Portrait of Richard Cumberland is a c.1776 portrait painting by the British artist George Romney of the playwright and diplomat Richard Cumberland.[1]

Cumberland was a popular writer whose plays such as The West Indian had appeared in London's West End.[2] [3] During the late 1770s he went on a mission to Madrid in an unsuccessful attempt to prevent Spanish entry into the American War of Independence. Romney was a top portraitist of the Georgian era. Today the work is in the collection of the National Portrait Gallery on Trafalgar Square having been purchased from the sitter's grandson in 1857.[4]

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  • Cross, David. A Striking Likeness: The Life of George Romney. Routledge, 2019.
  • Kidson, Alex. George Romney, 1734-1802. National Portrait Gallery, 2002.
  • O'Quinn, Daniel. Entertaining Crisis in the Atlantic Imperium, 1770–1790. JHU Press, 2011.
  • Schwanecke, Christine. A Narratology of Drama: Dramatic Storytelling in Theory, History, and Culture from the Renaissance to the Twenty-First Century. Walter de Gruyter, 2022.