# Portrait of Edward Wortley Montagu [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [ROMNEY, George]() - Date: 1751-1800 - Technique: Oil on canvas, 163 x 119 cm ## Commentary Edward Wortley Montagu \(1713-1776\) was an English author and traveller. He was characterised by his contemporaries as playboy, dilettante, author, revolutionary, and traveler - a dysfunctional child. Romney's portrait was painted during his sojourn in Venice. It shows the influence of Titian. Presenting a vigorous and positively war-like figure, the pose is derived from Titian's similarly exotic <a onclick="return OpenOther\('/html/t/tiziano/10/21/11medici.html'\)" href="/html/t/tiziano/10/21/11medici.html">Portrait of Ippolito de' Medici in Hungarian costume.</a> This portrait was part of the collection of portraits formed by the 2nd Earl of Warwick, at Warwick Castle in the late eighteenth century. For many years, it has been on loan in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, since the late 1970s. ## Related artworks - [Lady in a Brown Robe]() - [Miss Constable]() - [Portrait of a Gentleman]() - [Portrait of George, Lord Brooke, with a Dog]() - [Portrait of Lady Anne Barbara Russell]() - [Portrait of Lady Emma Hamilton as Flora]() - [Portrait of Lady Georgiana Smyth and her Son]() - [Portrait of Mrs Anne Carwardine and Her Eldest Son, Thomas]() - [Portrait of Mrs. Harriet Greer]() - [Portrait of Mrs Henrietta Morris and Her Son John]() - [Portrait of Mrs. Henry Ainslie with Her Child]() - [Portrait of Philip Yorke, 2nd Earl of Hardwicke]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()