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Sir Joshua Reynolds Portrait of Charles Coote 1773(1773)
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Sir Joshua Reynolds Portrait of John Murray 1765(1765)
Medium Oil on canvas
Dimensions 238.1 x 146.2 cm (93.7 x 57.6 in)
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Sir Joshua Reynolds Portrait of Jane Fleming 1775(1775)
Medium Oil
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Sir Joshua Reynolds Portrait of Susannah Beckford 1756(1756)
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Sir Joshua Reynolds Elizabeth Kerr, marchioness of Lothian oil on canvas
87.5 x 74.9
1769 or later
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Sir Joshua Reynolds Elizabeth Drax, Countess of Berkeley Date 1759-1760
Medium Oil on canvas
Dimensions 77.2 x 64.2 cm (30.4 x 25.3 in)
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Sir Joshua Reynolds Portrait of Henry Arundell, 8th Baron Arundell of Wardour Date 1764(1764) or 1767(1767)
Medium Oil on canvas
Dimensions 94 x 58 in (238.8 x 147.3 cm)
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Sir Joshua Reynolds Portrait of Caroline Fox Date 1757-1758
Medium Oil
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Sir Joshua Reynolds Self ortrait 1776(1776)
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Sir Joshua Reynolds Portrait of Admiral Augustus Keppel 1779(1779)
Medium Oil on canvas
Dimensions 123.2 x 100.3 cm (48.5 x 39.5 in)
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Sir Joshua Reynolds Portrait of John Stuart 1773(1773)
Medium Oil on canvas
Dimensions 236.9 x 144.8 cm (93.3 x 57 in)
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Sir Joshua Reynolds Portrait of John Stuart 1773(1773)
Medium Oil on canvas
Dimensions 236.9 x 144.8 cm (93.3 x 57 in)
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Sir Joshua Reynolds Elizabeth 1767(1767)
Medium Oil on canvas
Dimensions 75 x 62 cm (29.5 x 24.4 in)
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Sir Joshua Reynolds Portrait of James Boswell 1785(1785)
Medium Oil on canvas
Dimensions 72.4 x 60.3 cm (28.5 x 23.7 in)
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Sir Joshua Reynolds Portrait of George Anson 1755(1755)
Medium Oil on canvas
Dimensions 127 x 101.6 cm (50 x 40 in)
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Sir Joshua Reynolds Portrait of Frederick Howard 1769(1769)
Medium Oil on canvas
Dimensions 241 x 149.8 cm (94.9 x 59 in)
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Sir Joshua Reynolds Portrait of Mrs. Thrale and her daughter Hester 1777(1777)
Medium Oil
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Sir Joshua Reynolds Portrait of Alexander Wedderburn 1785
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Sir Joshua Reynolds Portrait of Alexander Wedderburn 1785(1785)
Medium Oil
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Sir Joshua Reynolds Portrait of Lady Georgiana Spencer 1759-1761
Medium Oil on canvas
Dimensions 58.4 x 47 cm (23 x 18.5 in)
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Sir Joshua Reynolds
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British
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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