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A copy of a study of Emma Hart, by George Romney. She is shown posing as Cassandra from Shakespeare’s ‘Troilus and Cressida’. Romney’s Cassandra painting was among his contributions to Alderman John Boydell’s celebrated Shakespeare Gallery. Emma met Romney in 1782, when she was about 16, through her ‘protector’ Charles Greville. Romney was apparently captivated by her beauty and she became his favourite model until, in March 1786, Greville passed her on to the protection of his uncle, Sir William Hamilton, the British ambassador to the Kingdom of Naples. They married in 1791 but in 1799 she also became the lover of Admiral Horatio Nelson in an affair that has become legendary. Throughout Romney’s career he designed innumerable grand, turbulent compositions which usually remained as sketches.
Emma gave over 300 sittings for Romney in a four year period, and the last picture Romney painted of her was as a spinstress.
Title
Lady Emma Hamilton (1761?–1815) as Cassandra
Medium
oil on canvas
Measurements
H 45.5 x W 38 cm
Accession number
BHC2261
Work type
Painting
National Maritime Museum
Romney Road, Greenwich, London, Greater London SE10 9NF England
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