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Sir Joshua Reynolds
Self-Portrait
mk52
c.1748-9
Oil on canvas
63x74cm
National Portrait Gallery,London
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Sir Joshua Reynolds
Portrait of the Artist
1780
oil on wood,27 x 101.6 cm
(50 x 40in)
Royal Academy London (mk63)
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Sir Joshua Reynolds
Portrait of a Clergyman
mk61
Oil on canvas
77x64cm
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Sir Joshua Reynolds
Portrait of James Bourdieu
mk61
1765
Oil on canvas
121x61cm
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Sir Joshua Reynolds
The Infant Hercules Strangling Serpents in his Cradle
mk65
ca.1786
Oil on canvas
119x117"
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Sir Joshua Reynolds
Cupid Undoing Venus's Belt
mk65
Oil on canvas
50x40"
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Sir Joshua Reynolds
Self-Portrait
mk67
Oil on canvas
28 1/8x22 13/16in
Uffizi,
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Sir Joshua Reynolds
Self-Portrait
mk68
Oil on canvas
Florence,Uffizi,
1775
Britain
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Sir Joshua Reynolds
Lady Skipwith
mk76
Painted in 1787
Oil on canvas
50 1/2x40 1/4in
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Sir Joshua Reynolds
General john burgoyne
mk76
Painted probably in 1766
Oil on canvas
50x39 7/8in
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Sir Joshua Reynolds
Portrait of Susanna Beckford
mk86
1756
Oil on canvas
127x101cm
London,Tate Gallery
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Sir Joshua Reynolds
Sarah Siddons as the Traginc Muse
mk86
1784
Oil on canvas
236x146cm
San Marino,Huntington Library and Art Gallery
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Sir Joshua Reynolds
The Infant Samuel
mk86
1776
Oil on canvas
89x70cm
Montpellier,Musee Fabre
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Sir Joshua Reynolds
Simplicity Dawson
mk127
24x18
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Sir Joshua Reynolds
Selina,Lady Skipwith
mk29
1787
Oil on canvas
128.2x102.2cm
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Sir Joshua Reynolds
Elizabeth Lady Taylor
mk29
1780
Oil on canvas
127.3x100cm
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Sir Joshua Reynolds
The Countess Spencer with her Daughter Georgiana
mk156
1760
Oil on canvas
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Sir Joshua Reynolds
Miss Bowles
mk156
1775
Oil on canvas
91x71cm
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Sir Joshua Reynolds
Self-Portrait
MK156
1775
Oil on canvas
71.5X58
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Sir Joshua Reynolds
Cupid Untying the Zone of Venus
mk159
c.1788
Oil on canvas
127.5x101cm
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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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