Sir Joshua Reynolds

The best-known among MP 's siblings was her brother Joshua , seven years her junior, whose work as a portrait painter eventually won him a knighthood and the first Presidency of the Royal Academy ...

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...

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.

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...

The learned gloss on her words by James F. Palmer , by contrast, occupied 75 pages and was not reliable.

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. But there is almost a parable of female fame in...

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...

Other Streatham habitueés were Sir Joshua Reynolds , Arthur Murphy , Edmund Burke , Oliver Goldsmith , Charles Burney , and David Garrick . Later came the young Frances Burney , who became a...

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...

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.

FR 's style of living changed radically when she left Devon to live with her elder brother Joshua in St Martin's Lane, London.

The painter Sir Joshua Reynolds (estranged brother of FR ) died of liver disease at his house in Leicester Square, London.

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...

Of five brothers, two died young, one became a naval officer and another an ironmonger. Joshua , who was six years older than Frances, became the most successful portrait painter of his generation. His life...

Many of FR 's friends were literary people who wrote down their flattering opinions of her. James Northcote , who lived in Joshua Reynolds 's house during the years 1771-5, wrote much praise of Frances...