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Joshua Reynolds, portrait painter and aesthetician who dominated English artistic life in the middle and late 18th century. Through his art and teaching, he attempted to lead British painting away from the indigenous anecdotal pictures of the early 18th century toward the formal rhetoric of the continental Grand Style.
Reynolds, Joshua. (Plympton, Devonshire, 1723-Londres, 1792). Pintor británico, hijo de un pastor protestante, ingresa en 1740 en el taller de Thomas Hudson y solo tres años después inicia su carrera profesional como retratista. Viaja en 1749 a Roma, y regresa en 1752 a Londres, pasando por Florencia, Parma, Bolonia, Venecia y París.
17 de feb. de 2020 · En bref. Joshua Reynolds (1723 – 1792) a multiplié les titres de gloire : premier président de la Royal Academy of Arts, premier peintre du roi George III, ce portraitiste aurait relevé le niveau de l’école anglaise, à une époque où les commandes étaient accaparées par des peintres étrangers. Admirateur des grands maîtres de la ...
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Sir Joshua Reynolds PRA (1723 - 1792) The Royal Academy’s first president, Joshua Reynolds, was considered the leading portrait painter of his day and a key figure in the Academy. Still in print today, and widely translated, his groundbreaking Discourses in Art were hugely influential on the development of British art.
Hace 2 días · Sir Joshua Reynolds. 1723 - 1792. Reynolds was the leading English portraitist of the 18th century. 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 born at Plympton in Devon, the son of a headmaster and fellow of ...
Joshua Reynolds was hugely prolific, producing over 2,000 portraits in his career. He is considered one of Britain's greatest artists, revolutionizing the art of portraiture and raising its status. He had a profound impact on both his contemporaries and successors and his style was emulated by artists including Hugh Barron, John Singleton Copley, and James Northcote.
