Sir Joshua Reynolds

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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.

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.

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

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...

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...

In a letter she slighted her own work as my usual presumption of copying beautiful nature. But Horace Walpole , Sir Joshua Reynolds , and William Gilpin , the authority on the picturesque, were...

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...

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...

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...

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...