
Sir Joshua Reynolds Painting Reproductions 1 of 3
1723-1792
English Rococo Painter
Sir Joshua Reynolds (July 16, 1723 - February 23, 1792) was the most important and influential of 18th century English painters, specialising in portraits and promoting the "Grand Style" in painting which depended on idealization of the imperfect. He was one of the founders and first President of the Royal Academy. George III appreciated his merits and knighted him in 1769.
Reynolds was born in Plympton St Maurice, Devon, on 16 July 1723, and apprenticed in 1740 to the fashionable portrait painter Thomas Hudson, with whom he remained until 1743. From 1749 to 1752, he spent over two years in Italy, mainly in Rome, where he studied the Old Masters and acquired a taste for the "Grand Style". From 1753 on, he lived and worked in London. He became a close friend of Dr Johnson, Oliver Goldsmith, Edmund Burke, Henry Thrale, David Garrick and fellow artist Angelica Kauffmann. He was one of the earliest members of the Royal Society of Arts: he encouraged that society's interest in contemporary art and, with Gainsborough, established the Royal Academy as a spin-out organisation.
Many of his works show children in various states of un-dress. It is unlikely that such an interest would escape criticism in today's world, regardless of artistic merit.
With his rival Thomas Gainsborough, he was the dominant English portraitist of the second half of the 18th century. Reynolds painted in more of an idealized fashion than his rival. Reynolds was a brilliant academic. His lectures (Discourses) on art, delivered at the Royal Academy between 1769 and 1790, are remembered for their sensitivity and perception. In one of these lectures he was of the opinion that "invention, strictly speaking, is little more than a new combination of those images which have been previously gathered and deposited in the memory." In 1789 he lost the sight of his left eye, and on 23 February 1792 he died in his house in Leicester Fields, London. He was buried in St. Paul's Cathedral.
Reynolds was born in Plympton St Maurice, Devon, on 16 July 1723, and apprenticed in 1740 to the fashionable portrait painter Thomas Hudson, with whom he remained until 1743. From 1749 to 1752, he spent over two years in Italy, mainly in Rome, where he studied the Old Masters and acquired a taste for the "Grand Style". From 1753 on, he lived and worked in London. He became a close friend of Dr Johnson, Oliver Goldsmith, Edmund Burke, Henry Thrale, David Garrick and fellow artist Angelica Kauffmann. He was one of the earliest members of the Royal Society of Arts: he encouraged that society's interest in contemporary art and, with Gainsborough, established the Royal Academy as a spin-out organisation.
Many of his works show children in various states of un-dress. It is unlikely that such an interest would escape criticism in today's world, regardless of artistic merit.
With his rival Thomas Gainsborough, he was the dominant English portraitist of the second half of the 18th century. Reynolds painted in more of an idealized fashion than his rival. Reynolds was a brilliant academic. His lectures (Discourses) on art, delivered at the Royal Academy between 1769 and 1790, are remembered for their sensitivity and perception. In one of these lectures he was of the opinion that "invention, strictly speaking, is little more than a new combination of those images which have been previously gathered and deposited in the memory." In 1789 he lost the sight of his left eye, and on 23 February 1792 he died in his house in Leicester Fields, London. He was buried in St. Paul's Cathedral.
68 Reynolds Paintings

Portrait of Lady Skipwith 1787
Oil Painting
$1686
$1686
Canvas Print
$62.17
$62.17
SKU: RSJ-3206
Sir Joshua Reynolds
Original Size: 128.3 x 102.2 cm
Frick Collection, New York, USA
Sir Joshua Reynolds
Original Size: 128.3 x 102.2 cm
Frick Collection, New York, USA

Portrait of General John Burgoyne c.1766
Oil Painting
$1519
$1519
Canvas Print
$63.32
$63.32
SKU: RSJ-3207
Sir Joshua Reynolds
Original Size: 127 x 101.3 cm
Frick Collection, New York, USA
Sir Joshua Reynolds
Original Size: 127 x 101.3 cm
Frick Collection, New York, USA

Portrait of Miss Nelly O'Brien c.1762/64
Oil Painting
$1926
$1926
Canvas Print
$63.32
$63.32
SKU: RSJ-3208
Sir Joshua Reynolds
Original Size: 126.3 x 101 cm
The Wallace Collection, London, UK
Sir Joshua Reynolds
Original Size: 126.3 x 101 cm
The Wallace Collection, London, UK

Miss Jane Bowles 1775
Oil Painting
$990
$990
Canvas Print
$61.16
$61.16
SKU: RSJ-4827
Sir Joshua Reynolds
Original Size: 91 x 70.9 cm
The Wallace Collection, London, UK
Sir Joshua Reynolds
Original Size: 91 x 70.9 cm
The Wallace Collection, London, UK

Mrs Elizabeth Carnac c.1775
Oil Painting
$2474
$2474
Canvas Print
$52.22
$52.22
SKU: RSJ-4828
Sir Joshua Reynolds
Original Size: 240.4 x 146.4 cm
The Wallace Collection, London, UK
Sir Joshua Reynolds
Original Size: 240.4 x 146.4 cm
The Wallace Collection, London, UK

Mrs Susanna Hoare and Child c.1763/64
Oil Painting
$1918
$1918
Canvas Print
$63.32
$63.32
SKU: RSJ-4829
Sir Joshua Reynolds
Original Size: 132.5 x 101.6 cm
The Wallace Collection, London, UK
Sir Joshua Reynolds
Original Size: 132.5 x 101.6 cm
The Wallace Collection, London, UK

Frances Countess of Lincoln c.1781/8
Oil Painting
$1519
$1519
Canvas Print
$59.87
$59.87
SKU: RSJ-4830
Sir Joshua Reynolds
Original Size: 62 x 47 cm
The Wallace Collection, London, UK
Sir Joshua Reynolds
Original Size: 62 x 47 cm
The Wallace Collection, London, UK

Lady Elizabeth Seymour-Conway 1781
Oil Painting
$1449
$1449
Canvas Print
$60.01
$60.01
SKU: RSJ-4831
Sir Joshua Reynolds
Original Size: 61.5 x 47.2 cm
The Wallace Collection, London, UK
Sir Joshua Reynolds
Original Size: 61.5 x 47.2 cm
The Wallace Collection, London, UK

The Strawberry Girl c.1772/73
Oil Painting
$810
$810
Canvas Print
$66.63
$66.63
SKU: RSJ-4832
Sir Joshua Reynolds
Original Size: 76.6 x 63.7 cm
The Wallace Collection, London, UK
Sir Joshua Reynolds
Original Size: 76.6 x 63.7 cm
The Wallace Collection, London, UK

Mrs Mary Robinson (Perdita) c.1783/84
Oil Painting
$744
$744
Canvas Print
$65.62
$65.62
SKU: RSJ-4833
Sir Joshua Reynolds
Original Size: 77 x 63.5 cm
The Wallace Collection, London, UK
Sir Joshua Reynolds
Original Size: 77 x 63.5 cm
The Wallace Collection, London, UK

St John the Baptist in the Wilderness c.1776
Oil Painting
$1101
$1101
Canvas Print
$63.18
$63.18
SKU: RSJ-4834
Sir Joshua Reynolds
Original Size: 132 x 102.2 cm
The Wallace Collection, London, UK
Sir Joshua Reynolds
Original Size: 132 x 102.2 cm
The Wallace Collection, London, UK

Mrs Jane Braddyll c.1776
Oil Painting
$1062
$1062
Canvas Print
$65.77
$65.77
SKU: RSJ-4835
Sir Joshua Reynolds
Original Size: 75.5 x 63.4 cm
The Wallace Collection, London, UK
Sir Joshua Reynolds
Original Size: 75.5 x 63.4 cm
The Wallace Collection, London, UK

Mrs Mary Nesbitt 1781
Oil Painting
$988
$988
Canvas Print
$62.88
$62.88
SKU: RSJ-4836
Sir Joshua Reynolds
Original Size: 76.5 x 63.2 cm
The Wallace Collection, London, UK
Sir Joshua Reynolds
Original Size: 76.5 x 63.2 cm
The Wallace Collection, London, UK

The 4th Duke of Queensbury (Old Q) as Earl of March c.1759/60
Oil Painting
$1822
$1822
Canvas Print
$61.31
$61.31
SKU: RSJ-4837
Sir Joshua Reynolds
Original Size: 91 x 67.5 cm
The Wallace Collection, London, UK
Sir Joshua Reynolds
Original Size: 91 x 67.5 cm
The Wallace Collection, London, UK

The Angerstein Children 1783
Oil Painting
$1732
$1732
SKU: RSJ-4842
Sir Joshua Reynolds
Original Size: unknown
Kenwood House (The Iveagh Bequest), London, UK
Sir Joshua Reynolds
Original Size: unknown
Kenwood House (The Iveagh Bequest), London, UK

Elizabeth, Lady Taylor c.1780
Oil Painting
$2225
$2225
Canvas Print
$63.32
$63.32
SKU: RSJ-17455
Sir Joshua Reynolds
Original Size: 127.3 x 102.2 cm
Frick Collection, New York, USA
Sir Joshua Reynolds
Original Size: 127.3 x 102.2 cm
Frick Collection, New York, USA

Lady Cecil Rice 1762
Oil Painting
$2262
$2262
Canvas Print
$62.60
$62.60
SKU: RSJ-17456
Sir Joshua Reynolds
Original Size: 126.4 x 100.6 cm
Frick Collection, New York, USA
Sir Joshua Reynolds
Original Size: 126.4 x 100.6 cm
Frick Collection, New York, USA

Cupid Untying the Zone of Venus 1788
Oil Painting
$1595
$1595
Canvas Print
$62.60
$62.60
SKU: RSJ-17457
Sir Joshua Reynolds
Original Size: 127.5 x 101 cm
The State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia
Sir Joshua Reynolds
Original Size: 127.5 x 101 cm
The State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia

Captain George K. H. Coussmaker 1782
Oil Painting
$1975
$1975
Canvas Print
$52.22
$52.22
SKU: RSJ-17458
Sir Joshua Reynolds
Original Size: 238 x 145.4 cm
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA
Sir Joshua Reynolds
Original Size: 238 x 145.4 cm
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA

Mrs. Elisha Mathew 1777
Oil Painting
$2496
$2496
Canvas Print
$52.22
$52.22
SKU: RSJ-17459
Sir Joshua Reynolds
Original Size: 237.5 x 146.3 cm
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, USA
Sir Joshua Reynolds
Original Size: 237.5 x 146.3 cm
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, USA

John Murray, 4th Earl of Dunmore 1765
Oil Painting
$2461
$2461
Canvas Print
$52.22
$52.22
SKU: RSJ-17460
Sir Joshua Reynolds
Original Size: 238 x 146.2 cm
National Galleries of Scotland, Edinburgh, UK
Sir Joshua Reynolds
Original Size: 238 x 146.2 cm
National Galleries of Scotland, Edinburgh, UK

The Ladies Waldegrave 1780
Oil Painting
$2528
$2528
Canvas Print
$67.64
$67.64
SKU: RSJ-17461
Sir Joshua Reynolds
Original Size: 143 x 168.3 cm
National Galleries of Scotland, Edinburgh, UK
Sir Joshua Reynolds
Original Size: 143 x 168.3 cm
National Galleries of Scotland, Edinburgh, UK

Robert Hay Drummond, Archbishop of York 1764
Oil Painting
$2296
$2296
Canvas Print
$63.04
$63.04
SKU: RSJ-17462
Sir Joshua Reynolds
Original Size: 127 x 101.6 cm
National Galleries of Scotland, Edinburgh, UK
Sir Joshua Reynolds
Original Size: 127 x 101.6 cm
National Galleries of Scotland, Edinburgh, UK

Portrait of a Young Lady c.1760/65
Oil Painting
$833
$833
Canvas Print
$65.34
$65.34
SKU: RSJ-17463
Sir Joshua Reynolds
Original Size: 76.5 x 63 cm
Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna, Austria
Sir Joshua Reynolds
Original Size: 76.5 x 63 cm
Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna, Austria