Sir Joshua Reynolds

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...

Johnson had a talent for friendship which he kept well exercised: the names mentioned here represent only a selection of his friendships. His early London friends, whom he met during a comparatively poorly documented period...

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

While in England ML visited Edmund Burke at Beaconsfield. He had attended school and university with her father and had been taught by her grandfather; he made his final visit to Ballitore in 1786...

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. When an illustrated edition did appear...

CL was sitting for her portrait to Sir Joshua Reynolds . He showed her as young and beautiful.

Jane Haldimand was educated at home, where she read widely in both English and French. She had lessons from tutors in mathematics, astronomy, and philosophy (the last-named a close relation of modern science. Her...

She was a well-known figure in London cultural circles, particularly that of the Bluestockings. Charles Burney called her at-home evenings blue conversazioni's and Horace Walpole called them quite Mazarine-blue. Others specifically mentioned in...

Although Sir Joshua Reynolds supposed MBCL insufficiently skilled as an artist to manage history painting, and Rose E. McCalmont in Memoirs of the Binghams, 1915, was dismissive about her artistic work, Horace Walpole

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...

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...

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. The story is set during the reign of...

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...

She had already begun to move in fashionable circles, and became friendly with Lady Caroline Lamb , Lady Cork , and painters James Northcote and Sir Joshua Reynolds . In 1802, in London and...

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.