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John Romney

worked 1730–1750

Cabinet builder and amateur maker ‘as expert in making a fiddle as in constructing a gentleman’s home’ according to his grandson. Father and teacher of George Romney, above. Work presently unknown. [BVMA] — John Dilworth

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John Dilworth+

ROMNEY, John Worked circa. 1730-1750 Dalton, Lancashire UK. Cabinet builder and amateur maker ‘as expert in making a fiddle as in constructing a gentleman’s home’ according to his grandson. Father and teacher of George Romney, above. Work presently unknown. [BVMA]

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