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	GEORGE ROMNEY - LoveToKnow Article on GEORGE ROMNEY (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
		In 1775 Romney returned to London, establishing himself in Cavendish Square, and resuming his extensive and lucrative employment as a portrait painter, which in 1785, according to the estimate of his pupil Robinson, yielded him an income of over 3600.
		Weak himself, he flattered the weaknesses of Romney, encouraged his excessive and morbid sensibility, disturbed him with amateurish fancies and suggestions, and tempted him to expend on slight rapid sketches, and ill-considered, seldom-completed paintings of ideal and poetical subjects, talents which would have found fitter exercise in the steady pursuit of portraiture.
		ROMNEY, HENRY SIDNEY, EARL or (1641-1704), fourth son of Robert, 2nd earl of Leicester, was born in Paris in 1641.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /R/RO/ROMNEY_GEORGE.htm (2892 words)

	Boston.com / News / Politics / Presidential candidates / Father's path not lost on Romney (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
		Michigan Governor George Romney's popularity among GOP moderates was thus sealed, and three years later he emerged as an early favorite for the 1968 Republican nomination.
		Interviews with Romney intimates, including his chief strategist Michael Murphy and financial backer J.W. Marriott Jr., paint a portrait of a man who, having made a fortune as a venture capitalist, is an opportunist in the classic sense of the word, intent on remaining nimble and prepared to take advantage of shifting fortunes.
		Now, as Romney strategists start to assess his presidential chances, supporters say, he is keenly aware of the parallels to his father's aborted political career, and determined to avoid the traps that doomed it.
	www.boston.com /news/politics/president/articles/2005/03/06/fathers_path_not_lost_on_romney (526 words)

	Boston.com / News / Boston Globe / Living / Arts / Who was George Romney?
		George Romney earned fame as a businessman for reversing the sagging fortunes of what was then the American Motors Corporation.
		Romney's early grab for the GOP nomination was encouraged by the powerful and popular Nelson Rockefeller, a longtime presidential aspirant himself.
		Romney was warned to avoid the New Hampshire primary, where his "not-quite-irresistible candidacy would collide with the immovable support from New Hampshire Republicans for Richard Nixon," according to the Manchester Union-Leader.
	www.boston.com /news/globe/living/articles/2004/12/09/who_was_george_romney (744 words)

	George Romney (painter) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		George Romney (December 26, 1734 – November 15, 1802) was a noted English portrait painter.
		In 1762, by which time he was married with two children, he went to London, and saw early success with a painting, The Death of General Wolfe which won a prize from the Royal Society of Arts.
		Romney was invited to join the newly-formed Royal Academy but refused to resign from another artistic society, violating the Academy's exclusive membership rules.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/George_Romney_(painter) (252 words)

	Biography
		From 1755 to 1757 Romney was the pupil of Christopher Steele, an itinerant portrait and genre painter.
		Romney's career began when he toured the northern English counties painting portraits for a few guineas each.
		Romney especially admired the work of Nicolas Le Sueur, whose use of the antique strongly appealed to him.
	www.wga.hu /bio/r/romney/biograph.html (272 words)

	George Romney British art's forgotten genius
		The year 2002 marks the bi-centenary of the death of George Romney, one of the leading artists in Britain during the last quarter of the 18th century.
		In the twentieth century, Romney was gradually re-evaluated as a brilliant, spontaneous draughtsman whose mind teemed with ideas, but who lacked the application to turn his sketches into finished works.
		Romney's mature drawings were recognised as having been highly influential on a group of younger contemporaries such as John Flaxman and William Blake, and their modernity has appealed to many twentieth-century artists.
	www.liverpoolmuseums.org.uk /walker/exhibitions/romneyg/index.asp (202 words)

	George W. Romney biography .ms (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
		George Wilcken Romney (July 8, 1907–July 26, 1995) was chairman of the American Motors Corporation from 1954 to 1962 and Republican governor of Michigan from 1963 to 1969.
		George Romney, a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (better known as the "Mormons"), was born in a church colony in Chihuahua, Mexico.
		Romney died of a heart attack while exercising on his treadmill in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan.
	george-wilcken-romney.biography.ms (335 words)

	Romney Exhibition
		During the 1770s and 1780s, Romney was the leading rival of Sir Joshua Reynolds and Thomas Gainsborough, attracting patronage for his skillful combination of elegance and informality, confident draftsmanship and sensuous handling of paint.
		Romney was born in 1734 on the Lake District coast of England in Dalton-in-Furness, Lancashire.
		Romney's son, who visited his father at this time, recalled that the cartons were drawn at night, as a form of relaxation from the rigors of portrait painting by day.
	www.huntington.org /ArtDiv/romney.html (1651 words)

	George Romney, ex-governor of Michigan (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
		Romney to be secretary of Housing and Urban Development, a post he held from 1969 to 1972, when he resigned to return to the private sector.
		Romney's son, Mitt, a Massachusetts businessman, waged a tough but unsuccessful challenge to Sen. Ted Kennedy's 1994 bid for re-election.
		George Wilken Romney was born July 8, 1907, in Chihuahua, Mexico, where his parents and other Mormons had moved to avoid U.S. laws against polygamy.
	www.polyamory.org /Howard/news/romney.html (388 words)

	Wife of former governor had opinions of her own
		Scott Romney, one of her four children, said, "She was a strong and a great woman in her own right, but her greatest impact was on dad.
		George Romney later said that his wife "sacrificed herself to ensure the future of the party" and that her candidacy "died months before the election because of inaccurate press reports" about the circumstances of her becoming a candidate.
		The Romneys insisted that she decided to run at the urging of then-Gov. William Milliken and Rep. Gerald Ford, who wanted her to grab the nomination from the "too liberal" Donald Riegle of Flint, then a Republican, and the "too conservative" Huber of Troy.
	www.freep.com /news/obituaries/qlromney8.htm (878 words)

	Art Critic London (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
		THERE are many reasons to go to the long overdue reassessment of the art of George Romney, at the Walker Art Gallery in Liverpool, but what impressed me most about the exhibition was the way it focused on the economic realities of an artist's life in 18th-century England.
		But, on his return, Romney did something even more daring: he took a long lease on a substantial house off Cavendish Square, a newly fashionable part of London west of Oxford Circus where property development was rampant.
		He painted her dozens of times, as Cassandra, as Miranda, as Circe or a bacchante, in an inspired body of work that forms the middle ground between the portraits he hated and the history paintings he was unable to paint.
	www.theartnewspaper.com /artcritic/level1/reviewarchive/2002/feb_27_02_main.html (1231 words)

	George Romney - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		There have been two notable figures named George Romney:
		George Romney (1907-1995) - Governor of Michigan (a first cousin five times removed of his namesake the English painter)
		This is a disambiguation page, a list of pages that otherwise might share the same title.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/George_Romney (93 words)

	Romney. The Tempest (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
		Romney has clearly captured the emotions of Miranda in a way that was not transferred to the final canvas.
		In the light of Emma's subsequent fate, Romney's decision to paint her as Miranda in the opening act of The Tempest is one of the little ironies of history.
		In 1786 the impoverished Greville [her lover when she met Romney] dispatched his Miranda to Naples to the care of his elderly uncle Sir William Hamilton (1730-1803), ambassador to the court of Naples.
	www.english.emory.edu /classes/Shakespeare_Illustrated/Romney.Tempest.html (576 words)

	A Republican's Mass. Appeal (washingtonpost.com)
		Willard Mitt Romney (his first name honors his father's friend J. Willard Marriott, the hotelier) is the son of a presidential candidate, George Romney, Michigan's governor from 1963 to 1969.
		George Romney's 1968 presidential campaign fizzled early, but President Richard Nixon made him secretary of housing and urban development.
		Romney's disadvantage will be that, given his legislature, he has had no real opportunity to advance a conservative agenda.
	www.washingtonpost.com /wp-dyn/articles/A3409-2004Dec15.html (751 words)

	Amazon.ca: Books: George Romney 1734-1802 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
		This handsome catalogue, which accompanies a major international exhibition commemorating the bicentennial of George Romney's death, offers the first in-depth modern overview of a key figure in eighteenth-century British art.
		Romney was the main rival of Sir Joshua Reynolds and Thomas Gainsborough--and for much of his career more fashionable than either.
		Romney's chief ambition, however, was to succeed as a history painter, and he made countless drawings for literary and mythological pictures that he never had time to paint.
	www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/1855143348 (385 words)

	A Striking Likeness, The Life of George Romney
		In their stunning simplicity, George Romney’s portraits of eighteenth-century gentry and their children are among the most widely recognised creations of his age.
		A rival to Reynolds and Gainsborough, Romney was born in 1734 on the edge of the Lake District, the landscape of which never ceased to influence his eye for composition and colour.
		An influential figure, one of the founding fathers of neo-classicism and a harbinger of romanticism, Romney yearned to develop his talents as a history painter.
	www.lundhumphries.com /pages/single/2063.html (210 words)

	AllRefer.com - George Romney (U.S. History, Biography) - Encyclopedia
		George Romney[rom´nE] Pronunciation Key, 1734–1802, English portrait painter, b.
		Having had little early training, Romney went to London in 1762, where he rapidly became a popular and fashionable portrait painter.
		Romney's best portraits are ranked among the finest of the English school.
	reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/R/Romney-G.html (273 words)

	Guardian Unlimited Books \| Review \| Self-Portrait, George Romney (1784)
		Romney, born near Barrow-in-Furness, began his career by providing the gentry of northern England with elegant, silky-smooth pictures of themselves, their wives and children, before making it in London as the rival of Sir Joshua Reynolds for the capital's most lucrative portrait commissions.
		Romney is not even all there, his body trailing off in a few limp lines and flaccid, unfinished patches of enervated pink-brown.
		Romney was said to have rushed it, but the mood of unfinished, hesitant, attention-deficit frustration is intentional.
	books.guardian.co.uk /review/story/0,12084,737289,00.html (534 words)

	George Romney (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
		George was born at Beckside in Dalton on the 15th December, 1734 and it was here he spent his early years although he attended school at Dendron.
		Not a lot is known about George's life at this time but it was in ths period that indications of his artistic abilities started to emerge.
		They are of Moses the law giver and Aaron the High Priest, and are reputed to be the early work of George Romney, it rnust be emphasised however that there is no direct evidence to support this view, and that without expert opinion their oriqin must remain in doubt.
	www.rdarby.demon.co.uk /newrmney.htm (321 words)

	BHL Research Topics: Collapse of Romney's Presidential Campaign (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
		From about 1966 to 1968, George Romney, governor of Michigan, was an active candidate for the 1968 Republican nomination for president of the United States.
		Romney Associates was responsible for research, speech writing, press and public relations, scheduling and travel arrangements, and responding to the governor's out-of-state correspondence.
		Because of the geographic distance between the two groups and the frequent overlapping of their functions, the Romney campaign was marked by internal conflicts and inefficiency.
	www.umich.edu /~bhl/bhl/topics/romney.htm (461 words)

	George Romney (1734 - 1802) Artwork Images, Exhibitions, Reviews
		George Romney was born in Lancashire, son of a cabinetmaker who trained under portrait artist, Christopher Steele.
		George Romney, William Sotherton, The Younger, of Darrington, 1788
		George Romney, Portrait of a Gentleman (Colonel Thomas Thornton), 1780
	wwar.com /masters/r/romney-george.html (824 words)

	Romney, George Wilcken -- Encyclopædia Britannica
		It is surrounded by Romney Marsh, a level tract built up largely in historic times by the silting of a former inlet.
		George was elected to the Professional Football Hall of Fame in 1974.
		The lyric poet Stefan George was chiefly responsible for the revival of German poetry at the close of the 19th century.
	www.britannica.com /eb/article-9112282?tocId=9112282 (920 words)

	George Romney - Biography (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
		George Romney was born in Dalton-on-Furness, Lancashire, on 15 December 1734, the third of the eleven children of John Romney and Anne Simpson.
		In 1762 Romney settled in London, leaving his wife and son behind, and henceforward saw them only on his few visits to the north.
		On his return to London Romney was patronized by the Duke of Richmond, in whose celebrated gallery of casts he had formerly studied, and took the grand house in Cavendish Square, with its large painting room, previously occupied by Francis Cotes.
	www.bonus.com /contour/national_gallery/http@@/www.nga.gov/cgi-bin/pbio?26850 (381 words)

	America's Promise : About Us (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
		George Romney was one of the few Americans to have influenced the course of our history in each of the four great sectors of our society: business, government, religious, and civic.
		He was an automobile executive, three times Governor of Michigan, a candidate for President, a member of the cabinet, a leader of his church, and a ceaseless advocate of the use of volunteer power to solve social problems and enhance the quality of our national life.
		A devout Mormon, George Romney's attitude toward service was shaped by the two years he spent as a young man on a mission for his church.
	www.americaspromise.org /about/dispdetail.cfm?dispID=34 (704 words)

	Talking Politics \| Bush stumps for Romney (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
		Both George H.W. Bush, a former congressman, and George Romney, a former governor of Michigan, helped form the pro-business, socially moderate wing of the Republican Party in the 1960s.
		Romney would be able to use his bully pulpit at the State House to whack Kerry at will.
		Romney could lead the effort to highlight every negative thing Kerry ever did in Massachusetts — much as Republican operatives used the state as a gold mine of opposition research against Michael Dukakis in his 1988 presidential run.
	www.bostonphoenix.com /boston/news_features/talking_politics/documents/02460732.htm (1626 words)

	The Myth of Commissioned Illuminated Books: George Romney, Isaac D’Israeli, and “ONE HUNDRED AND SIXTY designs…of ...
		Romney’s owning a set of illuminated books proves that his admiration was both genuine and not limited to the early drawings or to the 1780s, and that Flaxman, assuming he played agent, merits his reputation for being committed to Blake.
		Or perhaps Romney simply preferred the ones he bought over the ones he did not, which is to say, perhaps he had a choice in the matter and bought the works from stock.
		The illuminated books belonging to Romney and D’Israeli, which at first appear certainly to have been commissioned, presumably by Romney, if for no other reasons than their being different from others of their kind and like one another, were produced in the same printing sessions and also purchased from stock.
	sites.unc.edu /viscomi/myth.htm (10535 words)

	Mitt Romney for president? - PittsburghLIVE.com
		Willard Mitt Romney (his first name honors his father's friend, J. Willard Marriott, the hotelier) is the son of a presidential candidate, George Romney, Michigan's governor, 1963-69.
		In 2002, he rescued the Salt Lake City Winter Olympics from scandal and financial mismanagement and later that year was elected governor, facing a $3 billion gap in a $22 billion budget.
		A strong supporter of charter schools -- Romney vetoed the Legislature's attempt to freeze the number of them -- he finds, as education reformers always do, that the teachers unions are the impediment.
	pittsburghlive.com /x/.../opinion/columnists/will/s_283684.html (703 words)

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