Alex Kidson is special projects fellow, Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art, and was curator of the 2002 bicentennial exhibition George Romney 1734–1802.
“Alex Kidson’s catalogue has many virtues: It corrects erroneous,
and reveals hitherto unknown, attributions; it chronicles how
commissions were carried out; and it meticulously trawls account
books, ledgers, sketchbooks, newspaper reports, reviews, and the
writings of Romney’s contemporaries to supply the contemporary
background for an oeuvre that spans nearly 2,000 portraits. But it
also shows how Romney [brought] an altogether new inventiveness and
élan to portraiture.”—Edward Short, Weekly Standard
*Weekly Standard*
“There is no doubting Kidson’s heroic achievement in producing this
catalogue, which has been designed and edited to an exceptionally
high standard… By his meticulous research and with his fair-minded
assessments Kidson has clearly placed Romney back on his pedestal
in the pantheon of great British artists of the eighteenth
century.”—Stephen Lloyd, Burlington
*Burlington*
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