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Memoirs
of Sir Joshua Reynolds Farington, Joseph ; Pallas Athene (UK)
Sir Joshua Reynolds (1723-"1792) was
the most fashionable painter of his time. His talent and ambition made him
the first English painter of European stature--"an especially
impressive feat considering portraiture, his chosen field, was often
ignored or dismissed. His position at the heart of British intellectual
life gave painting a new presence and transformed the way art was made and
appreciated in Britain. Seven
Discourses on Art Reynolds, Joshua ; Kessinger Publishing When
the artist is once enabled to express himself with some degree of
correctness, he must then endeavour to collect subjects for expression; to
amass a stock of ideas, to be combined and varied as occasion may require.
He is now in the second period of study, in which his business is to learn
all that has hitherto been known and done. Having hitherto received
instructions from a particular master, he is now to consider the art
itself as his master. He must extend his capacity to more sublime and
general instructions.
Reynolds, Sir Joshua (The Frick Collection, New York) Born at
Plympton, Devonshire, Reynolds served a brief apprenticeship under Thomas
Hudson in London before launching his career as a portrait painter in Plymouth.
Between 1749 and 1752 he was in Italy, where the study of ancient art and the
Italian masters profoundly affected his style. Soon after his return he became
the most fashionable portraitist in London. Reynolds was a prolific painter
whose variety of approach was envied by his rival, Thomas Gainsborough. As the
first President of the Royal Academy, Reynolds delivered a series of
“Discourses” that were highly influential in shaping British aesthetic
theory. He was a close friend of some of the leading personalities of his time,
including Dr. Johnson, Goldsmith, Burke, and Garrick. Works in the Collection:
General John Burgoyne, Lady
Skipwith
Wallace
Collection London: Lady
Elizabeth Seymour-Conway, Mrs.Susanna
Hoare and Child, Frances,
Countess of Lincoln, Mrs.Elizabeth
Carnac, Miss
Jane Bowles, Miss
Nelly O'Brien, The
Strawberry Girl, Mrs.
Mary Nesbitt, Mrs.
Mary Robinson ('Perdita'), Mrs.
Jane Braddyll, Saint
John the Baptist, in
the Wilderness, The
4th Duke of Queensbury ('Old Q') as Earl of March
Artcyclopedia
Books:
Sir
Joshua Reynolds : The Painter in Society by Richard Wendorf. Hardcover (November
1996), Sir
Joshua Reynolds : The Painter in Society by Richard Wendorf. Paperback (March
1998) That Sir Joshua Reynolds (1723-1792) became the most fashionable painter
of his time was not simply due to his artistic gifts or good fortune. The art of
pleasing, Richard Wendorf contends, was as much a part of Reynolds's success--in
his life and in his work--as the art of painting. Conceived as an experiment in
cultural criticism, written along the fault lines of art history and literary
studies, “Sir Joshua Reynolds” explores the ways in which portrait-painting
is embedded in the social fabric of a given culture as well as in the social and
professional transaction between the artist and his or her subject. In addition
to providing a new view of Reynolds, Wendorf's book develops a thoroughly new
way of interpreting portraiture. "You practice an art ruled by men. Worse
still, it is one in which your brother is preeminent. This was the delicate
position in which Frances Reynolds, professional portraitist and the sister of
Sir Joshua, found herself--which is only one of the fascinating highlights of
Richard Wendorf's portrait of the 18th century's most fashionable painter...The
subtitle of “Sir Joshua Reynolds” suggests something of its originality, for
it is not about the painter of society as much as the painter in society,
revealing how the enterprise of portrait-painting illumines the nature of the
period."
--Robert Taylor, BOSTON GLOBE
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