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Self-Portrait
Painting ID:: 26930
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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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Portrait of the Artist
Painting ID:: 28148
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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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Portrait of a Clergyman
Painting ID:: 28733
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Sir Joshua Reynolds
Portrait of a Clergyman
mk61
Oil on canvas
77x64cm
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Portrait of James Bourdieu
Painting ID:: 28734
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Sir Joshua Reynolds
Portrait of James Bourdieu
mk61
1765
Oil on canvas
121x61cm
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The Infant Hercules Strangling Serpents in his Cradle
Painting ID:: 29050
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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
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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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