Social England : a record of the progress of the people in religion, laws, learning, arts, industry, commerce, science, literature and manners, from the earliest times to the present day . tist, solid as some of his work seems, and preventedhis influencinof for e^ood the creneration that succeeded him. Romneys character has been, as a rule, harshly dealt conduct to his wife is, no doubt, inexcusable; but hisrelations with his family, notwithstanding his long separation,remained affectionate to the end. He expended his savings onhis brothers outfit to India. His children revered his me
Social England : a record of the progress of the people in religion, laws, learning, arts, industry, commerce, science, literature and manners, from the earliest times to the present day . tist, solid as some of his work seems, and preventedhis influencinof for e^ood the creneration that succeeded him. Romneys character has been, as a rule, harshly dealt conduct to his wife is, no doubt, inexcusable; but hisrelations with his family, notwithstanding his long separation,remained affectionate to the end. He expended his savings onhis brothers outfit to India. His children revered his memorv. 1784] THE REGENEFxATION OF ART. 403 His wife never complained. In later life, as the insidious diseaseof which he died gained ground, his natural moodiness andeccentricity increased, but his friendship with men like Cumber-land, Cowpor the poet, Flaxman, and Adam Walker, and evenHayley, shows that he must have possessed some endearingqualities. Flaxman, whom he had helped and encouraged as a boy,describes a visit paid to Eartham, Hayleys country house, spentin Romneys company, as follows:— I had the happiness ofhving such a fortnight as many thousands of my fellow creatures. /•//..(,).- Walk,,- ,(?? FLAX:\rAX, l:.A., JIODELLIXG THE BUSTOP IIAYLEY, BY G. ROMXEY. [National Portrait Gallery.) go out of the world without enjoying. And after the paintersdeath he wrote:— In my long attachment to Romney I havefelt the powerful charm that attaches a reader of feeling to theHamlet of Shakespeare. The comparison is singularly felicitous,for in Romney, too, we have the strange brilliancy, the incom-pleteness, the lack of courage, the moodiness, the indefinablecharm, and over all the shadow of madness and an unhonouredThe Hamlet among artists—that is Romney. srave. The introduction of the field cultivation of turnips and artificialgrasses proved the pivots of agricultural improvements. Thenew system of alternate husbandry proved that farming m a 40i ^.Y EliA O
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