Sir Joshua Reynolds

That year HMW was introduced by Dr John Moore to Burns , with whom she then corresponded. She met Samuel Rogers (in November 1787), Hester Lynch Piozzi , and Sir Joshua Reynolds . The year...

Her enumeration of those she met in London is impressive, including several noblemen, Benjamin Franklin , the scientist Daniel Solander , the religious poet and hymn-writer Thomas Gibbons , the abolitionist Granville Sharp (who took...

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.

The language is stilted an deliberately archaic. Victoria Glendinning describes the novel as baroque in manner and matter, and likens it to the Reynolds painting, The Three Graces Decorating a Statue of Hymen...

Some years after her brother Thomas's death (in 1790), JW wrote to the Gentleman's Magazine to point out that a recent publication, Testimonies to the Genius and Memory of Sir Joshua Reynolds, had omitted...

In London, Sarah met William Hogarth , Thomas Gainsborough , Sir Joshua Reynolds , and Dr Samuel Johnson . She attracted Johnson's notice by producing from her pocket a copy of Paradise Lost, when...

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...

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.

NRS says she has often found that my own selection of relevant detail has lighted on facts passed over as insignificant by other writers. She hopes to place her subject in a light, possibly...

Robinson found good friends among the male cultural and social leaders with whom she remained free to mix. Her daughter particularly mentions, as well as Sheridan , Sir Joshua Reynolds , Edmund Burke , and...

MR published a Monody to the Memory of Sir Joshua Reynolds.

MR 's affairs with the prince and with Fox overlapped with the beginning of what turned out to be her most enduring relationship: with Banastre Tarleton , an army colonel and a pitiless hero in...

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...

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.