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Sir Joshua Reynolds 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.
Sir Joshua Reynolds Portrait of 2nd Marquess of Rockingham 1766(1766)
Medium Oil on canvas
Dimensions 69.2 x 55.9 cm (27.2 x 22 in)
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Painting ID:: 84961
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Sir Joshua Reynolds Portrait of William Ponsonby, 2nd Earl of Bessborough. Date c. 1760(1760).
Medium Oil on canvas.
Dimensions 18 x 12 in (45.7 x 30.5 cm).
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Painting ID:: 85221
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Sir Joshua Reynolds Elizabeth Kerr oil on canvas
87.5 x 74.9
1769 or later
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Painting ID:: 85273
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Sir Joshua Reynolds Elizabeth Drax 1759-1760
Medium Oil on canvas
Dimensions 77.2 x 64.2 cm (30.4 x 25.3 in)
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Painting ID:: 85379
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Sir Joshua Reynolds Portrait of Henry Arundell 1764(1764) or 1767(1767)
Medium Oil on canvas
Dimensions 94 x 58 in (238.8 x 147.3 cm)
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Painting ID:: 87450
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Sir Joshua Reynolds A Young Black Oil on canvas
Date 1770s
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Painting ID:: 88772
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Sir Joshua Reynolds Portrait of William Ponsonby 1760(1760).
Medium Oil on canvas.
Dimensions 18 x 12 in (45.7 x 30.5 cm).
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Painting ID:: 88979
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Sir Joshua Reynolds Portrat des Vierten Herzogs von Marlborough und seiner Familie c. 1776
Medium oil on canvas
Dimensions Deutsch: 55 x 50,5 cm
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Painting ID:: 90454
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Sir Joshua Reynolds Ugolino and His Children Oil on canvas. 125.7 x 176.5 sm. Knole, Kent, UK.
Date 1770s.
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Painting ID:: 92221
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Sir Joshua Reynolds A Young Black Oil on canvas
Date 1770s
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Painting ID:: 92615
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Sir Joshua Reynolds John Julius Angerstein 1765(1765)
Medium oil on canvas
Dimensions 36 1/16 x 28 1/16 in. (91.6 x 71.3 cm)
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Painting ID:: 94414
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Sir Joshua Reynolds Charles Lennox, 3rd Duke of Richmond 1758(1758)
Medium oil
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Painting ID:: 94415
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Sir Joshua Reynolds Elizabeth, Lady Amherst 1767(1767)
Medium oil on canvas
Dimensions 75 x 62 cm (29.5 x 24.4 in)
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Painting ID:: 94416
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Sir Joshua Reynolds Colonel Acland and Lord Sydney, 'The Archers 1769
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Painting ID:: 94417
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Sir Joshua Reynolds Lady Elizabeth Delme and her Children between 1777(1777) and 1780(1780)
Medium oil on canvas
Dimensions Height: 239 cm (94.1 in). Width: 147 cm (57.9 in).
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Painting ID:: 94418
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Sir Joshua Reynolds Portrait of Admiral Sir Samuel Hood, later Lord Hood 1783(1783)
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Painting ID:: 94419
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Sir Joshua Reynolds The Age of Innocence 1788(1788)
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Painting ID:: 94909
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Sir Joshua Reynolds Captain George K H Coussmaker 1782
Type oil on canvas
Dimensions 238.1 cm x 145.4 cm
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Painting ID:: 98168
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Sir Joshua Reynolds Thais of Athens with tourch 1781(1781)
Medium oil on canvas
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Painting ID:: 98195
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Sir Joshua Reynolds Castro Urso oil on canvas
Dimensions 27.5 x 22 cm
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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.
