Joshua Reynolds (1723—1792) was a ‘Grand Style’ English painter, mainly invested in portraits
Joshua Reynolds Summary
- Born in Plympton, Devon; his sister was the author Mary Palmer (1716-1794)
- From the late 1750s, a popular portraitist in England
- Part of ‘The Club’, founded in 1764, which brought together the English intellectual elite
- Early member of the Royal Society of Arts; among founders of the Society of Artists of Great Britain]
- Suffered from deafness ever since he survived an illness in Rome; carried an ear trumpet
- Had the honor of painting the national hero Lord Heathfield in 1787
- Knighted by George III in 1769
Joshua Reynolds Famous Paintings
- Edward Cornwallis (1756)
- Elizabeth, Lady Amherst (1767)
- Boy with Grapes (1773)
- Jane, Countess of Harrington (1778)
- Lord Keppel (1779)
- The Age of Innocence (c. 1788)
- Cupid Untying the Zone of Venus (1788)
- Lady Elizabeth Delmé and Her Children (1779)
- The Ladies Waldegrave (1780)
- Sarah Siddons as the Tragic Muse (1789)