6/19/2023 0 Comments Joshua Reynolds by Lucy DavisHistory of Parliament Trust (ed.), The History of Parliament: British Political, Social & Local History, London 1964-, Ī. Rosenthal (eds.), Slave Portraiture in the Atlantic World, Cambridge 2013 Bindman, 'Subjectivity and Slavery in Portraiture' in A. The carmine reds have faded, leaving flesh-tones paler than intended, and the bitumen used in the blacks has tended to crack.ĭ. His paintings are not perfectly preserved due to faulty technique. Although believing that history painting was the noblest work of the painter, he had little opportunity to practise it, and his greatest works are his portraits. When the Royal Academy was founded in 1768, Reynolds was elected its first President. He was a key figure in the intellectual life of London, and a friend of Dr Johnson. He soon established himself as the leading portrait painter, though he was never popular with George III. He spent 1749-52 abroad, mainly in Italy, and set up practice in London shortly after his return. He was apprenticed in 1740 to the fashionable London portraitist Thomas Hudson, who also trained Wright of Derby. Reynolds was born at Plympton in Devon, the son of a headmaster and fellow of Balliol College, Oxford: a more educated background than that of most painters. Through study of ancient and Italian Renaissance art, and of the work of Rembrandt, Rubens and Van Dyck, he brought great variety and dignity to British portraiture. Reynolds was the leading English portraitist of the 18th century.
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