Wendorf, Richard. Sir Joshua Reynolds. Harvard University Press, 1996.
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Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
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Family and Intimate relationships | Sarah Fielding | |
Friends, Associates | Laetitia-Matilda Hawkins | LMH
's friends included Margaret Mitchell
, Frances Reynolds
, Cornelia Knight
, Anna Williams
(from whom she received particular kindness), and Sir Joshua Reynolds
. Feminist Companion Archive. |
Friends, Associates | Samuel Johnson | Boswell's is Johnson's most famous friendship, but his women friends were immensely important to him. Carter and Lennox were joined by Hester Thrale
(though Johnson always reckoned her husband, Henry Thrale
, if anything the... |
Friends, Associates | Ellis Cornelia Knight | During her childhood, ECK
associated with a variety of celebrated people through her family connections. Her mother was a close friend of painter and writer Frances Reynolds
(sister to the more famous painter Sir Joshua Reynolds |
Friends, Associates | Charlotte Lennox | She met Sarah Fielding
at Richardson's house, and became friendly also with Henry Fielding
, Saunders Welch
(the philanthropist, who later offered her employment), and Lord Orrery
. She was presumably the Mrs Lenox with... |
Friends, Associates | Hannah More | Here she began to gather the circle of friends which by the end of her long life had touched every cranny of English society. She had already met Edmund Burke
in Bristol the previous September... |
Friends, Associates | Mary Palmer | MP
and her husband
entertained her brother Joshua
, sister Frances
, and Samuel Johnson
, sharing the hostess honours for several days with her married sister Elizabeth Johnson, who lived nearby. Clifford, James L. Dictionary Johnson. McGraw-Hill, 1979. 282-5 |
Leisure and Society | Hannah More | Frances Reynolds
painted a portrait of HM
, now in Bristol Museums and Art Gallery. Thompson, Henry. The Life of Hannah More. T. Cadell, 1838. frontispiece |
Leisure and Society | Mary Palmer | MP
's painter brother and sister did several portraits of her. Sir Joshua
painted her in 1747 and again some years later; Frances
painted herself and her sisters Mary and Elizabeth as a threesome. Matthew, Henry Colin Gray, Brian Harrison, and Lawrence Goldman, editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Matthew, Henry Colin Gray, Brian Harrison, and Lawrence Goldman, editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. under Frances Reynolds |
Literary responses | Margaret Bingham, Countess Lucan | When on 25 April 1778 the topic came up among Samuel Johnson
, Frances Reynolds
, and James Boswell
of a lady's verses on Ireland, it must have been a reference to MBCL
's poem... |
Reception | Mary Palmer | The original Dictionary of National Biography called MP
's writing as represented in these texts the best piece of literature in the vernacular of Devon. Matthew, Henry Colin Gray, Brian Harrison, and Lawrence Goldman, editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. |
Residence | Charlotte Lennox | All her life CL
moved frequently from one lodging to another (lodging which often consisted of a room in someone else's house). During the productive 1750s she moved house at least nine times, in or... |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Laetitia-Matilda Hawkins | This work has been valued chiefly for its anecdotes of Samuel Johnson
and Sir Joshua Reynolds
. LMH
closes the volume on the name of Reynolds
(printed in honorific capitals), in an implicit tribute to... |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Ellis Cornelia Knight | ECK
relates her experiences at the English and at various European courts, and includes sketches and anecdotes of famous people she knew, including those of an earlier generation like Samuel Johnson
and Frances Reynolds
... |
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