Sir Joshua Reynolds (16 July 1723 – 23 February 1792) was an English painter who specialised in portraits. Art critic John Russell called him one of the major ...

Reynolds was the leading English portraitist of the 18th century. Through study of ancient and Italian Renaissance art, and of the work of Rembrandt, ...

Joshua Reynolds, portrait painter and aesthetician who dominated English artistic life in the middle and late 18th century. Through his art and teaching, ...

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This splendid two-volume catalogue of the paintings of Sir Joshua Reynolds (1723–1792), the father of British portrait painting and first president of the ...

The Royal Academy's first president, Joshua Reynolds, was considered the leading portrait painter of his day and a key figure in the Academy.

Sir Joshua Reynolds (16 July 1723 – 23 February 1792) was an English painter who specialised in portraits. Art critic John Russell called him one of the major ...

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The author's examination of Reynolds's life and career illuminates the nature of eighteenth-century English society in relation to the enterprise of portrait- ...

Biography. Reynolds was born in Plympton in Devonshire on 16 July 1723, seventh child in the large family of the Reverend Samuel Reynolds and Theophilia Potter.