Sir Joshua Reynolds

Standard Name: Reynolds, Sir Joshua

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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...
Author summary Frances Reynolds
FR , active in the later eighteenth century, was the author of poems (one printed), a published treatise on aesthetics, essays diary entries, and a memoir of Samuel Johnson which reached print years after her...
Literary responses Mary Delany
In a letter she slighted her own work as my usual presumption of copying beautiful nature.
Linney, Verna. “A Passion for Art, a Passion for Botany: Mary Delany and her Floral ’Mosaiks’”. Eighteenth-Century Women: Studies in their Lives, Work, and Culture, edited by Linda V. Troost, Vol.
1
, pp. 203-35.
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But Horace Walpole , Sir Joshua Reynolds , and William Gilpin , the authority on the picturesque, were...
Leisure and Society Hester Lynch Piozzi
The National Portrait Gallery lists twelve portraits of HLP , dated 1781 to 1811 (though some of these derive from each other and a couple are conversation-piece prints). Sir Joshua Reynolds painted her with her...
Leisure and Society Sarah Trimmer
Henry Howard painted her portrait in 1798 in the dignified style of Joshua Reynolds , although her bourgeois rank made her the kind of sitter who would have been virtually unheard of in Sir Joshua’s...
Leisure and Society Elizabeth Montagu
Portraits of EM include one by Allan Ramsay , done in 1762, which shows her as an intellectual (she has been reading Hume 's History). Though her body is wrapped in expensive lace, her...
Leisure and Society Georgiana Cavendish, Duchess of Devonshire
Among a huge number of paintings of her, Sir Joshua Reynolds did two particularly memorable ones: as a round-eyed little girl with her mother, and one as a mother herself, her baby dancing on her...
Leisure and Society Mary Robinson
As a beautiful actress MR was frequently painted by artists, who included Richard Cosway , Thomas Gainsborough , Angelica Kauffmann , Thomas Lawrence , Joshua Reynolds , and George Romney . As the prince's mistress...
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 et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
under Frances Reynolds
Leisure and Society Elizabeth, Margravine of Anspach
In 1778 Elizabeth Craven had her portrait painted by George Romney , apparently for Horace Walpole , who two years later wrote that he had hung it in his favourite blue room. Romney painted...
Leisure and Society Henrietta Sykes
Sir Joshua Reynolds painted HS at full length; the portrait remains at Sledmere. So does a group by Sir Thomas Lawrence of her with her husband and brother-in-law.
Sykes, Christopher Simon. The Big House. HarperCollins.
126, opposite 196
Leisure and Society Charlotte Lennox
CL was sitting for her portrait to Sir Joshua Reynolds . He showed her as young and beautiful.
This is Susan Carlile's dating; Duncan Isles placed the sitting later, just before the portrait was engraved...
Intertextuality and Influence Rebecca West
This novel revolves around four meetings (spread over several years) between pianist Harriet Hume and politician Arnold Condorex, characters who come to represent opposing forces—art and politics, private and public life, femininity and masculinity.
Glendinning, Victoria, and Rebecca West. “Introduction”. Harriet Hume, Lester and Orpen Dennys.
2, 6
Intertextuality and Influence Rebecca West
The language is stilted an deliberately archaic. Victoria Glendinning describes the novel as baroque in manner and matter,
Glendinning, Victoria, and Rebecca West. “Introduction”. Harriet Hume, Lester and Orpen Dennys.
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and likens it to the Reynolds painting, The Three Graces Decorating a Statue of Hymen...
Intertextuality and Influence Charlotte Nooth
CN refers to several canonical English names (Pope , Reynolds , Garrick , Shakespeare , and Edmund Kean in her first poem), and relates closely to continental women. She praises Germaine de Staël for...

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