Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
Sir Joshua Reynolds
Standard Name: Reynolds, Sir Joshua
Connections
Connections | Author name Sort descending | Excerpt |
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Textual Production | Mary Palmer | 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... |
Textual Production | Mary Palmer | The learned gloss on her words by James F. Palmer
, by contrast, occupied 75 pages and was not reliable. It asserts that in MP
's like a daver'd rose the adjective means something like... |
Reception | Mary Palmer | 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. |
Friends, Associates | Mary Palmer | 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. Clifford, James L. Dictionary Johnson. McGraw-Hill. 282-5 |
Family and Intimate relationships | Mary Palmer | 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
... |
Wealth and Poverty | Mary Palmer | 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... |
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... |
Friends, Associates | Hester Lynch Piozzi | Other Streatham habitueés were Sir Joshua Reynolds
, Arthur Murphy
, Edmund Burke
, Oliver Goldsmith
, Charles Burney
, and David Garrick
. Clifford, James L. Hester Lynch Piozzi (Mrs Thrale). Clarendon Press. 157 |
Residence | Frances Reynolds | 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. Wendorf, Richard. Sir Joshua Reynolds. Harvard University Press. 71 |
Residence | Frances Reynolds | FR
's style of living changed radically when she left Devon to live with her elder brother Joshua
in St Martin's Lane, London. Reynolds, Sir Joshua. The Letters of Sir Joshua Reynolds. Editors Ingamells, John and John Edgcumbe, Yale University Press. 13 Wendorf, Richard. Sir Joshua Reynolds. Harvard University Press. 71 |
Family and Intimate relationships | Frances Reynolds | The painter Sir Joshua Reynolds
(estranged brother of FR
) died of liver disease at his house in Leicester Square, London. Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. under Sir Joshua Reynolds |
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... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Frances Reynolds | 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... |
Friends, Associates | Frances Reynolds | 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... |
Wealth and Poverty | Frances Reynolds | 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... |
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