Joshua Reynolds
Sir Joshua Reynolds PRA FRS FRSA (16 July 1723 – 23 February 1792) was an English painter who specialised in portraits. John Russell said he was one of the major European painters of the 18th century.[1] He promoted the "Grand Style" in painting, which depended on idealisation of the imperfect. He was a founder and first president of the Royal Academy of Arts and was knighted by George III in 1769.
For other people with similar names, see Josh Reynolds.
Joshua Reynolds
23 February 1792 (aged 68)
The Reynolds Research Project[edit]
In 2010, the Wallace Collection launched the Reynolds Research Project. With the support of the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art, and in partnership with the National Gallery and in collaboration with the Yale Center for British Art, work was undertaken to conserve the museum's portraits to improve their visual appreciation for future generations and to investigate the ways in which they were painted.
The purpose of an exhibition and accompanying catalogue, Joshua Reynolds: Experiments in Paint, 2015, was to share the discoveries of the project and to reveal Reynolds's complex and experimental engagement with painterly materials over the course of his long career. A series of thematic groupings of works from the collection with temporary loans allowed the curators to explore the development of Reynolds's images from both a technical and art historical viewpoint.
As well as exploring his experimentation with materials, the project also revealed the innovative ways in which Reynolds collaborated with his patrons; played with the conventions of genre, composition and pose; engaged with the work of other artists; and organised the submission and display of his work at exhibitions. The commissioning and collecting of Reynolds's work, specifically in the context of the founders of the Wallace Collection (the Seymour-Conway family), was also examined.
Self Portrait, c. 1740
Commodore the Honourable August Keppel (1749), Reynolds's first portrait of Keppel
Kitty Fisher and Parrott (1763–1764)
Richard Crofts of West Harling, Norfolk (1765)
David Garrick; Eva Maria Garrick (née Veigel)
John Julius Angerstein (1765)
Lady Christian Acland (1771)
A Strawberry Girl, 1773
Anne Seymour Damer (1773)
Master Crewe as Henry VIII, 1775
![Miss Crewe, c. 1775, Tate Britain[45]](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/11/Miss_Crewe_%28Reynolds%29.jpg/120px-Miss_Crewe_%28Reynolds%29.jpg)
The Infant Samuel (1776)
Sarah Campbell (1777)
Countess of Eglinton (1777)
The Family of the Duke of Marlborough (1778)
Charles Stanhope, 3rd Earl of Harrington (1782)
Lady Elizabeth Keppel 1761
Admiral Hood (1783)
Heads of Angels – Miss Frances (Gordon), 1787
Mrs Elizabeth Carnac 1775
Lady Elizabeth Compton, Countess of Burlington 1780-1782
Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire c.1775
Jane Fleming, Countess of Harrington c.1775
Lady Worsley 1776
Sir William Fawcett 1784
John Hayes St. Leger
Lady Frances Finch, Countess of Dartmouth c.1781-1782
3rd Earl of Bute 1773
Sir Richard Peers Symons, Baronet 1770-1771
Sir Charles Davers, 6 bt 1773
Mrs John Hale 1762-1764
The Nativity., engraved by Ambrose William Warren for The Easter Gift, 1832, with a poetical illustration by Letitia Elizabeth Landon
