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Portrait of Emma Hart [later Lady Hamilton] as Miranda
George Romney, English, 1734 - 1802
Geography:
Made in Great Britain, Europe
Date:
1785 or 1786Medium:
Oil on canvasDimensions:
14 1/8 x 15 1/2 inches (35.9 x 39.4 cm)Curatorial Department:
European PaintingObject Location:
M1928-1-34Credit Line:
The John Howard McFadden Collection, 1928
Made in Great Britain, Europe
Date:
1785 or 1786Medium:
Oil on canvasDimensions:
14 1/8 x 15 1/2 inches (35.9 x 39.4 cm)Curatorial Department:
European PaintingObject Location:
Currently not on view
Accession Number:M1928-1-34Credit Line:
The John Howard McFadden Collection, 1928
Label:
Emma Hart, a beautiful woman of modest means, gained fame through her liaisons with English aristocrats. While married to Sir William Hamilton, British ambassador to Naples, she openly carried on a stormy romance with the naval hero Admiral Lord Nelson. In her youth she was one of Romney's favorite models. She is shown here as Miranda, the heroine of Shakespeare's Tempest, at the moment in act I, scene 2 when she begs her magician father Prospero to spare sailors shipwrecked in a storm he had raised.
Emma Hart, a beautiful woman of modest means, gained fame through her liaisons with English aristocrats. While married to Sir William Hamilton, British ambassador to Naples, she openly carried on a stormy romance with the naval hero Admiral Lord Nelson. In her youth she was one of Romney's favorite models. She is shown here as Miranda, the heroine of Shakespeare's Tempest, at the moment in act I, scene 2 when she begs her magician father Prospero to spare sailors shipwrecked in a storm he had raised.