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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. |
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Sir Joshua Reynolds
The Children of Edward Hollen Cruttenden
Museum of Art, Sao Paolo
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Sir Joshua Reynolds
Cupid Unfastens the Belt of Venus
1788
The Hermitage, St.Petersburg
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Sir Joshua Reynolds
The Countess Spencer with her Daughter Georgina
1760/61
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Sir Joshua Reynolds
Ladies Adorning a Term of Hymen
1773
Tate Gallery, London
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Sir Joshua Reynolds
Portrait of Admiral Viscount Keppel
1780
Tate Gallery, London
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Sir Joshua Reynolds
Master Hare
1788
Musee du Louvre, Paris
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Sir Joshua Reynolds
Master Hare
1788
Musee du Louvre, Paris
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Sir Joshua Reynolds
Lady Sarah Bunbury Sacrificing to the Graces
1765
The Art Institute of Chicago
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Sir Joshua Reynolds
Portrait of Mrs Siddons as the Tragic Muse
1784
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Sir Joshua Reynolds
Portrait of the Honorable Henry Fane with his Guardians, Inigo Jones and Charles Blair
1766
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
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Sir Joshua Reynolds
Colonel George K.H. Coussmaker
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
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Sir Joshua Reynolds
Heads of Angels
Tate Gallery, London
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Sir Joshua Reynolds
Nelly O'Brien
1762
Wallace Collection, London
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Sir Joshua Reynolds
Garrick Between Tragedy and Comedy
1761
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Sir Joshua Reynolds
The Infant Hercules Strangling the Serpents Sent by Hera
The Hermitage
St.Petersburg
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Sir Joshua Reynolds
Lady Caroline Howard
1778
The National Gallery of Art, Washington DC
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Sir Joshua Reynolds
General Sir Banastre Tarleton
National Gallery, London
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Sir Joshua Reynolds
Colonel St.Leger
1778
Waddesdon Manor, Aylesbury, England
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Sir Joshua Reynolds
Master Hard (mk05)
ca 1788/89
Canvas 30 1/4 x 25 1/4''(77 x 64 cm)Painted for the aunt of the sitter,Lady Jones Anna Maria Shipley Bequeathed in 1905 R.F.1580 (S/AR)
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Sir Joshua Reynolds
Portrait of the Artist (mk25)
1788
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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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