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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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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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Sir Joshua Reynolds
Elizabeth Kerr
oil on canvas
87.5 x 74.9
1769 or later
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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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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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Sir Joshua Reynolds
A Young Black
Oil on canvas
Date 1770s
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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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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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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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Sir Joshua Reynolds
A Young Black
Oil on canvas
Date 1770s
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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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Sir Joshua Reynolds
Charles Lennox, 3rd Duke of Richmond
1758(1758)
Medium oil
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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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Sir Joshua Reynolds
Colonel Acland and Lord Sydney, 'The Archers
1769
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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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Sir Joshua Reynolds
Portrait of Admiral Sir Samuel Hood, later Lord Hood
1783(1783)
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Sir Joshua Reynolds
The Age of Innocence
1788(1788)
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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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Sir Joshua Reynolds
Thais of Athens with tourch
1781(1781)
Medium oil on canvas
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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.
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