Sir Joshua Reynolds (1723 - 1792) was one of the most famous portrait painters of the 18th century. As the son of a headmaster, he enjoyed a more extensive school education than many of his colleagues. In 1740 Reynolds began his training with the London portrait painter Thomas Hudson. But before he himself settled in London as a portrait painter, he spent three years travelling, mainly in Italy, where he studied the old masters.
Through his intensive studies of antiquity and the Italian Renaissance, as well as Rembrandt and Rubens, Reynolds was able to expand British portraiture and give it more dignity. Thus, shortly after his return to London, Reynolds established himself as one of the best portrait painters in the city. The King, George. III, but he never met him. He painted many other personalities, such as "Anne, 2nd Countess of Albemarle" (ca. 1760), "Captain Robert Orme" (1756) or "Colonel Tarletin" (1782).
Although the painter himself believed that history painting was the noblest of all painting, he himself came only little to this genre. His reputation as a portraitist, however, spoke for itself. When the Royal Academy of Arts was founded in 1768, Joshua Reynolds was elected its first president. Only one year later, the painter was raised to the nobility because of his merits.
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_1777_Sun_089_-_(MeisterDrucke-999216).jpg "The Little Samuel in Prayer, 1777, 0.89 x 0.7 m, Musée Fabre, Montpellier by Joshua Reynolds")
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.jpg "Captain George K.H. Coussmaker by Joshua Reynolds")
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.jpg "Portrait Study of a Young Lady by Joshua Reynolds")
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.jpg "Unknown Image by Joshua Reynolds")
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.jpg "The Strawberry Girl, c1770s, 1912. by Joshua Reynolds")
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.jpg "Miss Jane Bowles, 1775, 1911 by Joshua Reynolds")
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.jpg "Puck, 1789 by Joshua Reynolds")
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.jpg "Diana, Viscountess Crosbie, 1777 by Joshua Reynolds")
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.jpg "Miss Mary Hickey by Joshua Reynolds")
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.jpg "Miss Jane Bowles, c. 1775 by Joshua Reynolds")
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.jpg "George IV when Prince of Wales with a Black man, 1787 by Joshua Reynolds")
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.jpg "Tysoe Saul Hancock, his wife Philadelphia, their daughter Elizabeth and their Indian maid Clarinda, c. 1763-5 by Joshua Reynolds")
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.jpg "Portrait of a woman in a black hat by Joshua Reynolds")
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.jpg "Portrait of Mrs. Sarah Otway with Her Daughter Jane by Joshua Reynolds")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-1460418).jpg "Miss Cocks and her niece, circa 1790 by Joshua Reynolds")
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.jpg "Miss Sarah Campbell, 1777-78 by Joshua Reynolds")
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.jpg "Miss Cocks and her Niece by Joshua Reynolds")
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.jpg "Edward Holden Cruttenden")
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_Second_Earl_of_Moira_and_First_Marquess_of_H_-_(MeisterDrucke-15092).jpg "Francis Rawdon-Hastings (1754-1826), Second Earl of Moira and First Marquess of Hastings by Joshua Reynolds")
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.jpg "Cupid Untying the Zone of Venus by Joshua Reynolds")
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.jpg "Lady Cockburn and her Three Eldest Sons, 1773 by Joshua Reynolds")
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.jpg "Portrait of Miss Keppel, Afterwards Mrs Thomas Meyrick by Joshua Reynolds")
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.jpg "Master Thomas Lister The Brown Boy (detail) by Joshua Reynolds")
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.jpg "Portrait of John Charles Spencer, Lord Althorp by Joshua Reynolds")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-1370354).jpg "Portrait of Sophie Musters as Hebe by Charles Howard Hodges")
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.jpg "The Hancock Family, 1765 by Joshua Reynolds")
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.jpg "Portrait of Francis Russell, the Marquess of Tavistock (d.1767) by Joshua Reynolds")
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 1753 - (MeisterDrucke-43134).jpg "Portrait of Giuseppe Marchi by Joshua Reynolds")
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.jpg "Portrait of Jane, Countess of Harrington, with her Sons, the Viscount Petersham and the Honorable Lincoln Stanhope by Joshua Reynolds")
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.jpg "Mrs Abington as Miss Prue in Congreve")
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.jpg "James, 7th Earl of Lauderdale by Joshua Reynolds")
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.jpg "Sir Jeffery Amherst by Joshua Reynolds")
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_oil_on_canvas_76_-_(MeisterDrucke-1081853).jpg "Girl with strawberries, painting by Joshua Reynolds by Joshua Reynolds")
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.jpg "Self Portrait, c.1779-80 by Joshua Reynolds")
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_Chaplain_to_the_Dockyard_at_Plymouth_-_(MeisterDrucke-1106418).jpg "Portrait of the Rev. William Beele (1704-57) Chaplain to the Dockyard at Plymouth, c.1748-49 by Joshua Reynolds")
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.jpg "Warren Hastings, engraved by H. Robinson, from")
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.jpg "Lady Cockburn and her Three Eldest Sons, 1773, 1907 by Joshua Reynolds")
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engraved_by_Francesco_Bartolozzi_(1727-1815)_-_(MeisterDrucke-39850).jpg "The Honourable Miss Bingham, engraved by Francesco Bartolozzi, published by E. M. Diemar, 1786 by Joshua Reynolds")
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.jpg "John, 2nd Earl of Egmont and His Second Wife Catherine by Joshua Reynolds")
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_1748_-_(MeisterDrucke-634697).jpg "Admiral the Honourable John Byron (?) by Joshua Reynolds")
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.jpg "Sir John Pringle, Engraved by W.H. Mote, from")
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.jpg "Elizabeth Cavendish, Duchess of Devonshire, from")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-1367243).jpg "Two Angels and a Child (title on object) by Charles Howard Hodges")
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.jpg "Self Portrait (detail) by Joshua Reynolds")
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.jpg "Elizabeth Gunning, Duchess of Hamilton and Argyll by Joshua Reynolds")
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 engraved by Francesco Bartolozzi - (MeisterDrucke-300960).jpg "Charles Burney engraved by Francesco Bartolozzi published in 1784 by Joshua Reynolds")
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.jpg "Paul Cobb Methuen and His Sister Christian, Later Lady Boston by Joshua Reynolds")
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_c1758_-_(MeisterDrucke-151149).jpg "Colonel The Honourable John Barrington (d.1764) c.1758 by Joshua Reynolds")
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.jpg "The Marquis of Granby and Lady Elizabeth Manners, as Children by Joshua Reynolds")
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.jpg "Captain Lord Robert Manners by Joshua Reynolds")
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.jpg "Robert d’Arcy, 4th Earl of Holderness by Joshua Reynolds")
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.jpg "Ariadne by Joshua Reynolds")
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.jpg "Stephen Croft, Junior by Joshua Reynolds")
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_and_her_son_George_Lord_Herbe_-_(MeisterDrucke-545647).jpg "Elizabeth Herbert, Countess of Pembroke and her son George, Lord Herbert by Joshua Reynolds")
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.jpg "Hercules Strangles the Two Serpents in His Cradle by Charles Howard Hodges")
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.jpg "Portrait of a Gentleman; Possibly George Bridges Brudenell by Joshua Reynolds")
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.jpg "Portrait of Caroline, Duchess of Marlborough with her daughter Lady Caroline Spencer (detail) by Joshua Reynolds")
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_and_his_son_Sir_Francis_4th_Baronet_(1752-1_-_(MeisterDrucke-1501753).jpg "Admiral Francis Holburne (1704-1771) and His Son, Sir Francis, 4th Baronet (1752-1820) by Joshua Reynolds")
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_Peinture_de_-_(MeisterDrucke-1323577).jpg "Cupid Untying the Zone of Venus by Joshua Reynolds")
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.jpg "Colonel Acland and Lord Sydney: The Archers by Joshua Reynolds")
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.jpg "John Parker and his sister Theresa by Joshua Reynolds")
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.jpg "Portrait of William Augustus, Duke of Cumberland by Charles Spooner")
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.jpg "Hester Thrale by Joshua Reynolds")
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_1765-67_-_(MeisterDrucke-569873).jpg "10th Earl of Pembroke 1765-67 by Joshua Reynolds")
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.jpg "The Honourable Frances Courtenay, Lady Honywood and her Daughter by Joshua Reynolds")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-1457449).jpg "Kitty Fisher as Cleopatra by Joshua Reynolds")
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.jpg "Portrait of Robert Shafto, called")
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.jpg "Charles Carroll of Carrollton by Joshua Reynolds")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-1087479).jpg "William Cavendish, 4th Duke of Devonshire by Joshua Reynolds")
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.jpg "Portrait of Mrs. Stanhope by Joshua Reynolds")
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.jpg "Portrait of Charles Burney by Joshua Reynolds")
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 1773 - (MeisterDrucke-109558).jpg "Anne Seymour Damer (1749-1828), 1773 by Joshua Reynolds")
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 c1755 - (MeisterDrucke-145512).jpg "Field Marshal Jean Louis Ligonier (1680-1770) c.1755 by Joshua Reynolds")
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.jpg "Hope Nursing Love (Miss Morris as Hope Nursing Cupid) by Joshua Reynolds")
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.jpg "Francis Hastings, Earl of Huntington, 1754 by Joshua Reynolds")
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.jpg "The Hon. Theresa Parker, Later the Hon. Theresa Villiers, 1787 by Joshua Reynolds")
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.jpg "Self Portrait, 1775 by Joshua Reynolds")
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.jpg "Sir William Jones from")
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.jpg "Study for the Portrait of Lord George Seymour Conway (1763-1848) as a Boy by Joshua Reynolds")
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.jpg "George Augustus Eliott, 1st Baron Heathfield by Joshua Reynolds")
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.jpg "Miss Elizabeth Ingram by Joshua Reynolds")
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.jpg "Lord Henry Spencer and Lady Charlotte Spencer, later Charlotte Nares: The Young Fortune Tellers, c.1774-75 by Joshua Reynolds")
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.jpg "Robert d’Arcy, 4th Earl of Holderness by Joshua Reynolds")
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_1757_-_(MeisterDrucke-569874).jpg "3rd Duke of Marlborough 1757 by Joshua Reynolds")
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.jpg "Portrait of Anne Goddard-Williams Hope by Charles Howard Hodges")
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 Italian violinist e - (MeisterDrucke-288819).jpg "Portrait of Felice de Giardini, engraved by Samuel William Reynolds by Joshua Reynolds")
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.jpg "David Garrick; Eva Maria Garrick, née Veigel by Joshua Reynolds")
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.jpg "John Charles Spencer, Viscount Althorp by Joshua Reynolds")
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.jpg "Portrait of a Lady by Joshua Reynolds")
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.jpg "Venus and Cupid, or The Wanton Bacchante by Joshua Reynolds")
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_Critic_-_(MeisterDrucke-1120529).jpg "Portrait of Dr Joseph Warton Critic by Joshua Reynolds")
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.jpg "Portrait of Mrs Elisha Matthew by Joshua Reynolds")
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.jpg "Maria Marow Gideon and her brother, William by Joshua Reynolds")
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