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  • Sir Joshua Reynolds

Sir Joshua Reynolds

1723–1792

Frederick Howard, 5th Earl of Carlisle 1769
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Biography

Sir Joshua Reynolds (16 July 1723 – 23 February 1792) was an English painter who specialised in portraits. John Russell said he was one of the major European painters of the 18th century. He promoted the "Grand Style" in painting, which depended on idealisation of the imperfect. He was a founder and first president of the Royal Academy of Arts and was knighted by George III in 1769.

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Artworks

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  • Sir Joshua Reynolds The Holy Family with the Infant St John

    1788–9
  • Sir Joshua Reynolds Master Crewe as Henry VIII

    c.1775
  • Sir Joshua Reynolds Miss Crewe

    c.1775
  • Sir Joshua Reynolds Three Ladies Adorning a Term of Hymen

    1773
    On display at Tate Britain part of Historic and Modern British Art
  • Sir Joshua Reynolds A Man’s Head

    c.1771–3
  • Sir Joshua Reynolds The Banished Lord

    engraved 1777
  • Sir Joshua Reynolds Lord Ligonier

    1760
  • Sir Joshua Reynolds The Infant Samuel

    c.1776
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Artist as subject

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  • Joseph Mallord William Turner Inscription by Turner: Draft of a Tribute to Sir Joshua Reynolds for a Perspective Lecture

    c.1808–11
    View by appointment
  • Sir Joshua Reynolds Self-Portrait

    c.1775
  • Sir Joshua Reynolds Self-Portrait when Young

    1753–8
  • John Henry Foley Sir Joshua Reynolds, P.R.A.

    date not known
  • Sir Joshua Reynolds Self-Portrait as a Figure of Horror

    c.1784
  • Sir Joshua Reynolds Self-Portrait as a Deaf Man

    c.1775
  • F. Derwent Wood [title not known]

    1916
  • F. Derwent Wood [title not known]

    1916
  • F. Derwent Wood [title not known]

    1916
  • F. Derwent Wood [title not known]

    1916
  • F. Derwent Wood [title not known]

    1916
  • F. Derwent Wood [title not known]

    1916
  • F. Derwent Wood [title not known]

    1916
  • Nathaniel Hone Sketch for ‘The Conjuror’

    1775
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