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Romney by Randall Davies is about the life and works of 18th-century English painter George Romney. Excerpt: "That Reynolds and Gainsborough were the two greatest portrait painters in England during the latter half of the eighteenth century is a proposition that no one is likely to question. Both had qualities that raised them far above the general, and considerably higher than even the foremost of their competitors; and though preference for the work of one or the other of them is often as much a matter of taste as of opinion, the pre-eminence of the two is beyond dispute. When we come to fill the third place, however, the question is not so readily settled."