For Emma Lyon, it certainly worked. Emma Hamilton as a young woman c. 1782, by George Romney, Emma as a Sibyl by George Romney, circa 1785, Emma as a Bacchante by George Romney, 1785. Indeed, during the period of six months, while she was waiting for Greville to come and get her, Hamilton grew very fond of her. Etsy uses cookies and similar technologies to give you a better experience, enabling things like: Detailed information can be found in Etsy’s Cookies & Similar Technologies Policy and our Privacy Policy. 00A00d00 000000b0000y00 000MusePortfolios, 00A00d00 000000b0000y00 000MoleculeCrafts, 00A00d00 000000b0000y00 000CapricornShamaness, 00A00d00 000000b0000y00 000MuseJewlMakersMagic, 00A00d00 000000b0000y00 000myfioreboutique, 00A00d00 000000b0000y00 000DiamondDoveJewelry, 00A00d00 000000b0000y00 000SillyShinyDiamonds, 00A00d00 000000b0000y00 000EternalYouthDesign, 00A00d00 000000b0000y00 000DarlingGolightly, 00A00d00 000000b0000y00 000MaryGracePainting. There are 8868 muse for sale on Etsy, and they cost €88.73 on average. When she was born on the 26 th of April 1765, the future did not look promising. Beginning of a dialog window, including tabbed navigation to register an account or sign in to an existing account. The Gallery holds the most extensive collection of portraits in the world. Though Romney rarely exhibited at the Royal Academy, he was certainly influenced by the dominance of history painting in the hierarchy of genres. See NPG 4448. He described life at Hamilton's Villa Sessa: After many years of devotion to the arts and the study of nature, [Hamilton has] found the acme of these delights in the person of an English girl ... with a beautiful face and a perfect figure ... she lets down her hair and, with a few shawls, gives so much variety to her poses that the spectator can hardly believe his eyes. Painted in the year that Hamilton published Campi Phlegraei, Observations on the Volcanos of the Two Sicilies, Reynolds' distant view of Mount Vesuvius reminds us of Hamilton's position as the world's leading vulcanologist. Although Emma's presence in Romney's life had been a defining feature of his creativity, her departure for Italy accentuated the chronic depression which he suffered from during the final, troubled and faltering, years of his career. The Crossword Solver finds answers to American-style crosswords, British-style crosswords, general knowledge crosswords and cryptic crossword puzzles. Emma & George Romney Emma's first liaison with Sir Harry Fetherstonehaugh, of Uppark in Sussex, was short lived.