| Portrait of Richard Cumberland | |
| Artist: | George Romney |
| Year: | c.1776 |
| Type: | Oil on canvas, portrait |
| Height Metric: | 124.5 |
| Width Metric: | 99.1 |
| Metric Unit: | cm |
| Imperial Unit: | in |
| Museum: | National Portrait Gallery |
| City: | London |
Portrait of Richard Cumberland is a c.1776 portrait painting by the British artist George Romney of the playwright and diplomat Richard Cumberland.[1]
Cumberland was a popular writer whose plays such as The West Indian had appeared in London's West End.[2] [3] During the late 1770s he went on a mission to Madrid in an unsuccessful attempt to prevent Spanish entry into the American War of Independence. Romney was a top portraitist of the Georgian era. Today the work is in the collection of the National Portrait Gallery on Trafalgar Square having been purchased from the sitter's grandson in 1857.[4]