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Sir Joshua Reynolds
Portrait of Lady Elizabeth Hamilton
1758(1758)
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Sir Joshua Reynolds
Portrait of
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Sir Joshua Reynolds
Portrait of Frederick William Ernest
um 1764-1767
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Sir Joshua Reynolds
Portrait of Frederick Howard, 5th Earl of Carlisle
1769(1769)
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241 x 149.8 cm (94.9 x 59 in)
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Sir Joshua Reynolds
Lady Caroline Scott as 'Winter'
1776(1776)
Oil on canvas
143.5 x 112 cm (56.5 x 44.1 in)
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Sir Joshua Reynolds
Portrait of Lady Elizabeth Foster
1787(1787)
Oil on canvas
74 x 62 cm (29.1 x 24.4 in)
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Sir Joshua Reynolds
Mrs. Richard Paul Jodrell
"Mrs. Richard Paul Jodrell," oil on canvas, by the British painter Sir Joshua Reynolds. 76.2 cm x 63.5 cm (30 in. x 25 in.) Courtesy of the Detroit Institute of Arts. Image courtesy of The Athenaeum.
Date 1774-1776
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Sir Joshua Reynolds
Portrait of a Woman
1759(1759)
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Sir Joshua Reynolds
Commodore the Honourable Augustus Keppel
"Commodore the Honourable Augustus Keppel," oil on canvas, by the British painter Sir Joshua Reynolds. Dated 1749. 1270 mm x 1015 mm. Courtesy of the National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London.
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Sir Joshua Reynolds
Portrait of Lady Jane Halliday
1779(1779)
Medium Oil on canvas
Dimensions 239 x 148.5 cm (94.1 x 58.5 in)
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Sir Joshua Reynolds
son of George II
1758(1758)
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Sir Joshua Reynolds
Portrait of Hon
Painted in 1786
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Sir Joshua Reynolds
Portrait of Jane Fleming
1778(1778)
Medium Oil on canvas
Dimensions 235.6 x 145 cm (92.8 x 57.1 in)
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Sir Joshua Reynolds
John Ligonier, 1st Earl Ligonier
1760(1760)
Oil on canvas
281.2 x 235.7 cm (110.7 x 92.8 in)
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Sir Joshua Reynolds
Count of Schaumburg Lippe
um 1764-1767
Medium Oil
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Sir Joshua Reynolds
Portrait of a Woman
1759(1759)
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Sir Joshua Reynolds
Frederik
1788(1788)
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Sir Joshua Reynolds
Count of Schaumburg-Lippe
um 1764-1767
Medium Oil
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Sir Joshua Reynolds
The Countess of Dartmouth
1757(1757)
Medium Oil on canvas
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Sir Joshua Reynolds
Marquess of Granby
1763-65
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1723-1792
Sir Joshua Reynolds Locations
Reynolds was born in Plympton, Devon, on 16 July 1723. As one of eleven children, and the son of the village school-master, Reynolds was restricted to a formal education provided by his father. He exhibited a natural curiosity and, as a boy, came under the influence of Zachariah Mudge, whose Platonistic philosophy stayed with him all his life.
Showing an early interest in art, Reynolds was apprenticed in 1740 to the fashionable portrait painter Thomas Hudson, with whom he remained until 1743. From 1749 to 1752, he spent over two years in Italy, where he studied the Old Masters and acquired a taste for the "Grand Style". Unfortunately, whilst in Rome, Reynolds suffered a severe cold which left him partially deaf and, as a result, he began to carry a small ear trumpet with which he is often pictured. From 1753 until the end of his life he lived in London, his talents gaining recognition soon after his arrival in France.
Reynolds worked long hours in his studio, rarely taking a holiday. He was both gregarious and keenly intellectual, with a great number of friends from London's intelligentsia, numbered amongst whom were Dr Samuel Johnson, Oliver Goldsmith, Edmund Burke, Giuseppe Baretti, Henry Thrale, David Garrick and fellow artist Angelica Kauffmann. Because of his popularity as a portrait painter, Reynolds enjoyed constant interaction with the wealthy and famous men and women of the day, and it was he who first brought together the famous figures of "The" Club.
With his rival Thomas Gainsborough, Reynolds was the dominant English portraitist of 'the Age of Johnson'. It is said that in his long life he painted as many as three thousand portraits. In 1789 he lost the sight of his left eye, which finally forced him into retirement. In 1791 James Boswell dedicated his Life of Samuel Johnson to Reynolds.
Reynolds died on 23 February 1792 in his house in Leicester Fields, London. He is buried in St. Paul's Cathedral.
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