Sir Joshua Reynolds (1723–1792)
Author of Discourses on Art
About the Author
Image credit: Self-Portrait (Wikimedia Commons)
Works by Sir Joshua Reynolds
Gainsborough and Reynolds in the British Museum : [cat. exp., London, British Museum, 1978] (1978) 19 copies
The literary works of Sir Joshua Reynolds: To which is prefixed a memoir of the author; with remarks on his professional (1879) 6 copies
The Masterpieces of Reynolds 3 copies
Johnson and Garrick 3 copies
Reynolds in Canada 2 copies
Lady Caroline Howard 2 copies
Joshua Reynolds 1 copy
Captain Robert Orme 1 copy
A discourse, delivered to the students of the Royal Academy, on the distribution of the prizes ... 1 copy
[Paintings] 1 copy
Associated Works
Neoclassicism and Romanticism, 1750-1850, Vol. 1: Enlightenment/Revolution (1970) — Contributor — 28 copies
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Common Knowledge
- Birthdate
- 1723-07-16
- Date of death
- 1792-02-23
- Gender
- male
- Occupations
- painter
- Organizations
- Royal Academy of Arts (co-founder, president)
- Nationality
- England
- Birthplace
- Plympton, Devon, England, UK
- Place of death
- Leicester Fields, London, England, UK
- Map Location
- UK
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Reviews
Though he [Johnson] had no taste for painting, he admired much the manner in which Sir Joshua Reynolds treated of his art, in his Discourses to the Royal Academy. He observed one day of a passage in them, ‘I think I might as well have said this myself:’ and once when Mr. Langton was sitting by him, he read one of them very eagerly, and expressed himself thus:—‘Very well, Master Reynolds; very well, indeed. But it will not be understood.’ --quoted by Boswell in Life of Johnson
There are the followers of JR; and there are followers of the old mystic Wm. Blake.
"classic statement of the ideas that dominated European art for three centuries"
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