Critical Review. W. Simpkin and R. Marshall.
2nd ser. 5 (1792): 349
Sir Joshua Reynolds
Standard Name: Reynolds, Sir Joshua
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| Connections Sort ascending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Wealth and Poverty | Frances Reynolds | FR
was to all appearances dependent on her brother
for money. He enjoyed the use of his self-made wealth, and commissioned, for instance, a particularly eye-catching carriage, heavily carved and gilded, with the four seasons... |
| Wealth and Poverty | Mary Palmer | MP
's financial position as a comfortably married woman enabled her to assist members of her birth family. Having backed her brother Joshua
's educational travels in Italy in 1749-52, she was in 1775 balancing... |
| Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Elizabeth Sarah Gooch | Many of the poems continue the autobiographical mode of her first two books, with fawning gratitude for favourable reception as a writer. Many are elegiac, lamenting or commemorating people and places that had been dear... |
| 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... |
| Textual Production | Mary Robinson | |
| Textual Production | Mary Palmer | MP
wrote at a time when, as Martyn Wakelin
puts it, standard English had become a norm that drove out other dialects except in local speech and in literary works whose authors were after local... |
| Textual Production | Mary Palmer | The learned gloss on her words by James F. Palmer
, by contrast, occupied 75 pages and was not reliable. It asserts that in MP
's like a daver'd rose the adjective means something like... |
| Textual Features | Georgina Munro | A debauched earl is the narrator of this novel, which, typically for the genre, is peopled by characters from the gentry and the upper classes. Athenæum. J. Lection. 744 (1842):110 Blain, Virginia et al., editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford. |
| Textual Features | Naomi Royde-Smith | NRS
says she has often found that my own selection of relevant detail has lighted on facts passed over as insignificant by other writers. Royde-Smith, Naomi. The Private Life of Mrs. Siddons. V. Gollancz. 11 |
| Textual Features | Margaret Bingham, Countess Lucan | Although Sir Joshua Reynolds
supposed MBCL
insufficiently skilled as an artist to manage history painting, Cokayne, George Edward. The Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and the United Kingdom, extant, extinct, or dormant. Editor Gibbs, Vicary, St Catherine Press. 8: 238 |
| Residence | Frances Reynolds | The year after their father died, Joshua Reynolds
settled at Plymouth Dock in Devon, and Frances
and his next youngest sister left the family home at Plympton Erle in Devon to live with him there. Wendorf, Richard. Sir Joshua Reynolds. Harvard University Press. 71 |
| Residence | Frances Reynolds | FR
's style of living changed radically when she left Devon to live with her elder brother Joshua
in St Martin's Lane, London. Reynolds, Sir Joshua. The Letters of Sir Joshua Reynolds. Editors Ingamells, John and John Edgcumbe, Yale University Press. 13 Wendorf, Richard. Sir Joshua Reynolds. Harvard University Press. 71 |
| 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 et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. |
| Publishing | Henrietta Battier | She hoped to get a volume of her collected poems published while she was in London in 1784, and enlisted the aid of Samuel Johnson. Johnson
offered positive encouragement (assuring her he had often been... |
| Publishing | Charlotte Lennox | In about 1773-4 CL
planned a subscribers' edition with illustrations by Sir Joshua Reynolds
, Francesco Bartolozzi
, and Giovanni Battista Cipriani
; but this came to nothing. Isles, Duncan. “The Lennox Collection”. Harvard Library Bulletin, Vol. 18 , No. 4, pp. 317-44. 327 |
Timeline
1734: John Williams's Method to Learn to Design...
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1734
John Williams
's Method to Learn to Design the Passions, translated from a manual by French painter Charles Le Brun
, appeared; it proved highly influential.
December 1768: George III signed the papers for establishing...
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December 1768
George III
signed the papers for establishing the Royal Academy of Arts
. Angelica Kauffman or Kauffmann
was among the twenty-eight founding members who first met in January 1769 to hear an address by Sir Joshua Reynolds
1771: In a year when Sir Joshua Reynolds painted,...
Women writers item
1771
In a year when Sir Joshua Reynolds
painted, as Girl Reading, his niece Theophila Palmer
perusing Richardson
's Clarissa, five novels by women advertised their Clarissa kinship.
July 1773: The Westminster Magazine printed, along with...
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July 1773
The Westminster Magazine printed, along with its account of Oxford University
's annual degree-giving, an article by L. P.On the Propriety of Bestowing Academical Honours on the Ladies.
1797: The complete set of addresses delivered over...
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1797
The complete set of addresses delivered over the years to students at the Royal Academy
by Sir Joshua Reynolds
was published as Fifteen Discourses on Art.
10 May to 14 August 1813: The British Institution held a retrospective...
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10 May to 14 August 1813
The British Institution
held a retrospective exhibition of 141 paintings by Sir Joshua Reynolds
at its Pall Mall Picture Galleries: a major event of the social season, both cultural and patriotic.
Barchas, Janine. What Jane Saw. http://www.whatjanesaw.org.
November 2003: A painting by John Hoppner entitled Portrait...
Women writers item
November 2003
A painting by John Hoppner
entitled Portrait of a Lady as Evelina (Frances Burney
's earliest heroine, born in January 1778) sold at Sotheby
's to an unnamed private buyer for £173,600.
Texts
Reynolds, Sir Joshua. The Letters of Sir Joshua Reynolds. Editors Ingamells, John and John Edgcumbe, Yale University Press, 2000.