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Sir Joshua Reynolds Elisabeth, Sarah and Edward, Children of Edward Holden Cruttenden ca. 1763(1763)
Oil on canvas
179 X 168 cm (70.47 X 66.14 in)
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Sir Joshua Reynolds Lady Cockburn and Her Three Eldest Sons Date 1773(1773)
Medium Oil on canvas
Dimensions 141 ?? 113 cm (55.5 ?? 44.5 in)
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Sir Joshua Reynolds Portrait of Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire 1775-1776
Oil on canvas
237 ?? 145 cm (93.3 ?? 57.1 in)
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Sir Joshua Reynolds Portrait of Jane Fleming wife of Charles Stanhope, 3rd Earl of Harrington 1778(1778)
Oil on canvas
235.6 ?? 145 cm (92.8 ?? 57.1 in)
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Sir Joshua Reynolds Portrait of Lady Cockburn and her three oldest sons Date 1773(1773)
Medium Oil on canvas
Dimensions 141 ?? 113 cm (55.5 ?? 44.5 in)
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Sir Joshua Reynolds Portrait of Miss Anna Ward with Her Dog Portrait of Miss Anna Ward with Her Dog, 1787, oil on canvas painting by Joshua Reynolds, Kimbell Art Museum
Date 1787
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Sir Joshua Reynolds Portrait of James Maitland Date 18th century
Medium Oil on canvas
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Sir Joshua Reynolds Portrait of Jane Fleming, Countess of Harrington wife of Charles Stanhope, 3rd Earl of Harrington 1778(1778)
Oil on canvas
235.6 ?? 145 cm (92.8 ?? 57.1 in)
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Sir Joshua Reynolds Portrait of Miss Anna Ward with Her Dog 1787; Oil on canvas; 141.6 x 113.7 cm
Kimbell Art Museum, Fort Worth, Texas; Date 1787(1787)
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Sir Joshua Reynolds British actress Date 1764-1773
Medium Oil on canvas
Dimensions 236.2 ?? 147.3 cm (93 ?? 58 in)
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Sir Joshua Reynolds Lady Bampfylde ca. 1776(1776)
Oil on canvas
148 cm (58.3 in). Height: 2,381 cm (937.4 in).
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Sir Joshua Reynolds Mrs Richard Bennett Lloyd Date 1775-1776
Medium Oil on canvas
Dimensions 236 x 146 cm
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Sir Joshua Reynolds Lady Sarah Bunbury Sacrificing to the Graces 1765(1765)
Oil on canvas
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Sir Joshua Reynolds Portrait of Princess Sophia Matilda of Gloucester ca. 1774
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Sir Joshua Reynolds Portrait of Caroline Fox, 1st Baroness Holland 1757-1758
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Sir Joshua Reynolds Children of Edward Holden ca. 1763(1763)
Medium Oil on canvas
Dimensions 179 ?? 168 cm (70.5 ?? 66.1 in)
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Sir Joshua Reynolds Portrait of a Woman Portrait of a Woman (possibly Elizabeth Warren), 1759, oil on canvas painting by Joshua Reynolds, Kimbell Art Museum.
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Sir Joshua Reynolds Portrait of Anne Montgomery wife of 1st Marquess Townshend ca. 1780(1780)
Oil on canvas
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Sir Joshua Reynolds Lord Heathfield of Gibraltar 1787(1787)
Oil on canvas
142 ?? 113.5 cm (55.9 ?? 44.7 in)
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Sir Joshua Reynolds Portrait of John Murray, 4th Earl of Dunmore 1765(1765)
Oil on canvas
238.1 ?? 146.2 cm (93.7 ?? 57.6 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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