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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.
13 de nov. de 2023 · The devil, it seems, is quite literally in the details of an 18th-century Joshua Reynolds painting. Recent conservation work on the canvas has revealed the face of a demon-like figure that has ...
Joshua Reynolds - Painter, Royal Academy, Portraits: Reynolds preferred the company of men of letters to that of his fellow artists and was friends with Samuel Johnson, Edmund Burke, and Oliver Goldsmith, among others. He never married, and his house was kept for him by his sister Frances. Reynolds’s state portraits of the king and queen were never considered a success, and he seldom painted ...
George Kein Hayward Coussmaker was born in London in 1759. His father, Evert Coussmaker, died in 1763, and his mother, Mary, was remarried, to Sir Thomas Hales, Baronet, of Howlett, Kent. In 1776, George joined the First Regiment of Foot Guards as ensign and lieutenant, the lowest commissioned rank; he was promoted to the rank of lieutenant and captain in 1778, and to that of captain and ...
31 de oct. de 2023 · Sir Joshua Reynolds painted a demon lurking in the shadows in his picture The Death of Cardinal Beaufort, based on a Shakespearean death scene. But "the fiend" eventually disappeared beneath ...
Sir Joshua Reynolds (Plympton, 16 luglio 1723 – Londra, 23 febbraio 1792) è stato un pittore inglese, uno dei più importanti e influenti pittori del XVIII secolo in Gran Bretagna e uno dei fondatori della Royal Academy of Arts.
Sir Joshua Reynolds. Reynolds was born in Plympton in Devonshire on 16 July 1723, seventh child in the large family of the Reverend Samuel Reynolds and Theophilia Potter. Inspired to become an artist by Jonathan Richardson's elevated Essay on the Theory of Painting, Reynolds was apprenticed in 1740 to Thomas Hudson, the most fashionable ...
