Mrs. Richard Pryce Corbet and Her Daughter Mary

Mrs. Richard Pryce Corbet and Her Daughter Mary from 1783 is a maternal portrait from the height of Romney's London career. The painting captures the tender bond between mother and child, a subject Romney handled with particular sensitivity. Romney's oil handling was distinguished by fluid, rapidly applied strokes and an instinctive sense of elegant silhouette, producing portraits of apparent effortlessness that concealed careful preparatory drawing.

The figures are linked through natural gesture and warm coloring, the fluid composition emphasizing the affectionate relationship between mother and daughter.