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<a href="https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artists/george-romney-457" aria-label="More by George Romney" data-gtm-name="header_link_artist" data-gtm-destination="page--artist">George Romney</a>
Lady Hamilton as Cassandra
Bequeathed by Maj.-Gen. John Julius Johnstone 1898
actions: postures and motions
adults
body
Cassandra
classical myths: gods and heroes
Hamilton, Emma, Lady
head / face
individuals: female
looking up
named individuals
people
portraits
religion and belief
woman
<p>Romney is best known for his serene portraiture, but had ambitions to be a history painter. Throughout his career he designed innumerable grand, turbulent compositions which usually remained as sketches. He frequently used the lovely Emma Hart, later wife of Sir William Hamilton, British Envoy at Naples, as a model for 'fancy' pictures in which she assumes a variety of characters. In this sketch she appears as Cassandra, daughter of Priam, King of Troy, who was given the power of prophecy. Romney evokes her ravings as she pronounces the doom of the city after its ten-year siege by the Greeks. The finished full-length was engraved in 1795, but is now lost.</p><p><em>Gallery label, August 2004</em></p>
painting oil paint canvas
4 November 2016 – 17 April 2017
2017-04-17
4 November 2016 – 17 April 2017
2017-04-17
2016-11-04
National Maritime Museum (London, UK)
http://www.nmm.ac.uk
2016-11-04
Seduction and Celebrity: the Spectacular Life of Emma Hamilton
Loan-out
21 November 2019 – 8 March 2019
2019-03-08
21 November 2019 – 8 March 2020
2020-03-08
2019-11-21
British Museum (London, UK)
http://www.thebritishmuseum.ac.uk
2019-11-21
Troy
Loan-out
29 October 2024 – 30 September 2025
2025-09-30
30 October 2024 – 2 February 2025
2025-02-02
2024-10-30
Reggia di Venaria Reale (Turin, Italy)
1 September 2025 – 31 January 2026
2026-01-31
2025-09-01
Museum of Fine Arts (Budapest, Hungary)
1 March 2026 – 31 August 2026
2026-08-31
2026-03-01
External
2024-10-29
William Blake and the Age of Romantic Fantasy: British Art & Imagination
Loan-out
Lady Hamilton as Cassandra
support, circular: 467 × 467 × 16 mm
frame, circular: 672 × 672 × 57 mm
Bequeathed by Maj.-Gen. John Julius Johnstone 1898
<p>Romney is best known for his serene <a class="glossarylinktopopup" data-gtm-destination="article-page" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="http://www.tate.org.uk/learn/online-resources/glossary/p/portrait" title="Glossary definition for 'Portrait'"><span>portraiture</span></a>, but had ambitions to be a history painter. Throughout his career he designed innumerable grand, turbulent compositions which usually remained as sketches. He frequently used the lovely Emma Hart, later wife of Sir William Hamilton, British Envoy at Naples, as a model for '<a class="glossarylinktopopup" data-gtm-destination="article-page" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="http://www.tate.org.uk/learn/online-resources/glossary/f/fancy-picture" title="Glossary definition for 'Fancy Picture'"><span>fancy' pictures</span></a> in which she assumes a variety of characters. In this sketch she appears as Cassandra, daughter of Priam, King of Troy, who was given the power of prophecy. Romney evokes her ravings as she pronounces the doom of the city after its ten-year siege by the Greeks. The finished full-length was <a class="glossarylinktopopup" data-gtm-destination="article-page" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="http://www.tate.org.uk/learn/online-resources/glossary/e/engraving" title="Glossary definition for 'Engraving'"><span>engraved</span></a> in 1795, but is now lost.</p>
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