Self-Portrait, 1795, Oil on canvas, 30 x 25 in. (76. 2 x 63. 5 cm), Paintings, George Romney (British, Beckside, Lancashire 1734?1802 Kendal, Cumbria), This must be the self-portrait described by the artist's son John in 1830. In the winter of 1795 he painted a head of himself, which, though slight, and not entirely finished, being painted at once, shows uncommon power of execution; the likeness also is strong, but there is a certain expression of languor that indicates the approach of disease