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Sir Joshua Reynolds
Portrait of Charles Coote, 1st Earl of Bellamont
1773
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Sir Joshua Reynolds
Portrait of Elizabeth Gunning, Duchess of Hamilton and Duchess of Argyll was a celebrated Irish belle and society hostess.
1760(1760)
Oil on canvas
238.5 ?? 147.5 cm (93.9 ?? 58.1 in)
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Sir Joshua Reynolds
Portrait of John Stuart, 3rd Earl of Bute
1773(1773)
Oil on canvas
236.9 ?? 144.8 cm (93.3 ?? 57 in)
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Sir Joshua Reynolds
Portrat des Lord Heathfield, Gouverneur von Gibraltar
1787(1787)
Oil on canvas
142 ?? 113.5 cm (55.9 ?? 44.7 in)
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Sir Joshua Reynolds
Portrait of Sir Banastre Tarleton
Date 1782(1782)
Medium Oil on canvas
Dimensions 236 ?? 145 cm (92.9 ?? 57.1 in)
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Sir Joshua Reynolds
Lady Sunderland
1786(1786)
Oil on canvas
147.5 cm (58.1 in). Height: 238.5 cm (93.9 in).
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Sir Joshua Reynolds
The Duchess of Devonshire and her Daughter Georgiana
1786.
Oil on canvas
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Sir Joshua Reynolds
Kapitein Robert Orme
1756(1756)
Oil on canvas
240 ?? 147 cm (94.5 ?? 57.9 in)
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Sir Joshua Reynolds
Portrait of Susannah Beckford
1756
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Sir Joshua Reynolds
Lady Bampfylde
Date ca. 1776(1776)
Medium Oil on canvas
Dimensions Width: 148 cm (58.3 in). Height: 2,381 cm (937.4 in).
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Sir Joshua Reynolds
Captain the Honourable Augustus Keppel,
1752-1753
Oil on canvas
239 x 147.5 cm (94.1 x 58.1 in)
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Sir Joshua Reynolds
Portrait of Caroline Fox, 1st Baroness Holland
1757-1758
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Sir Joshua Reynolds
Self-portrait
1776
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Sir Joshua Reynolds
Countess of Harrington
Date 1778(1778)
Medium Oil on canvas
Dimensions 235.6 x 145 cm (92.8 x 57.1 in)
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Sir Joshua Reynolds
Portrait of Lady Elizabeth Hamilton
1758(1758)
Medium Oil
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Sir Joshua Reynolds
Portrait of Elizabeth Gunning, Duchess of Hamilton and Duchess of Argyll ) was a celebrated Irish belle and society hostess.
1760(1760)
Oil on canvas
238.5 x 147.5 cm (93.9 x 58.1 in)
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Sir Joshua Reynolds
Portrait of Francis Holburne with his son, Sir Francis Holburne, 4th Baronet
1756(1756)
Oil on canvas
127 x 101.5 cm (50 x 40 in)
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Sir Joshua Reynolds
Portrait of Admiral Augustus Keppel
1779(1779)
Oil on canvas
127 x 101.5 cm (50 x 40 in)
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Sir Joshua Reynolds
Portrait of Princess Sophia Matilda of Gloucester
ca. 1774(1774)
Medium Oil
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Sir Joshua Reynolds
Portrait of Jane Fleming
1778(1778)
Medium Oil on canvas
Dimensions 235.6 x 145 cm (92.8 x 57.1 in)
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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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