
Sir Joshua Reynolds Painting Reproductions Gallery 3 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.
64 Reynolds Paintings

Charles Stanhope, third Earl of Harrington, and a ... 1782
Oil Painting
$2100
$2100
Canvas Print
$48.60
$48.60
SKU: RSJ-17488
Sir Joshua Reynolds
Original Size: 236.2 x 142.2 cm
Yale Center for British Art, Connecticut, USA
Sir Joshua Reynolds
Original Size: 236.2 x 142.2 cm
Yale Center for British Art, Connecticut, USA

Lady Frances Finch c.1781/82
Oil Painting
$1843
$1843
Canvas Print
$57.71
$57.71
SKU: RSJ-17489
Sir Joshua Reynolds
Original Size: 142 x 113.3 cm
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, Australia
Sir Joshua Reynolds
Original Size: 142 x 113.3 cm
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, Australia

Miss Susanna Gale c.1763/64
Oil Painting
$2274
$2274
Canvas Print
$48.60
$48.60
SKU: RSJ-17490
Sir Joshua Reynolds
Original Size: 210 x 118.8 cm
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, Australia
Sir Joshua Reynolds
Original Size: 210 x 118.8 cm
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, Australia

Miss Offy Palmer c.1777/81
Oil Painting
$951
$951
Canvas Print
$61.19
$61.19
SKU: RSJ-17491
Sir Joshua Reynolds
Original Size: 76.7 x 64 cm
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, Australia
Sir Joshua Reynolds
Original Size: 76.7 x 64 cm
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, Australia

Portrait of Miss Anna Ward with Her Dog 1787
Oil Painting
$1219
$1219
Canvas Print
$58.65
$58.65
SKU: RSJ-17492
Sir Joshua Reynolds
Original Size: 141.6 x 113.7 cm
Kimbell Art Museum, Fort Worth, USA
Sir Joshua Reynolds
Original Size: 141.6 x 113.7 cm
Kimbell Art Museum, Fort Worth, USA

Mrs. Robert Froude, nee Phillis Hurrell 1762
Oil Painting
$1827
$1827
Canvas Print
$57.31
$57.31
SKU: RSJ-17493
Sir Joshua Reynolds
Original Size: 90.5 x 72.4 cm
Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minnesota, USA
Sir Joshua Reynolds
Original Size: 90.5 x 72.4 cm
Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minnesota, USA

Mrs. Lewis Thomas Watson 1789
Oil Painting
$1632
$1632
Canvas Print
$58.51
$58.51
SKU: RSJ-17494
Sir Joshua Reynolds
Original Size: 127 x 101.6 cm
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA
Sir Joshua Reynolds
Original Size: 127 x 101.6 cm
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA

Thomas and Martha Neate with His Tutor, Thomas Needham 1748
Oil Painting
$2309
$2309
Canvas Print
$67.62
$67.62
SKU: RSJ-17495
Sir Joshua Reynolds
Original Size: 168 x 180.3 cm
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA
Sir Joshua Reynolds
Original Size: 168 x 180.3 cm
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA

Anne Dashwood, Later Countess of Galloway 1764
Oil Painting
$1950
$1950
Canvas Print
$64.27
$64.27
SKU: RSJ-17496
Sir Joshua Reynolds
Original Size: 133.4 x 118.7 cm
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA
Sir Joshua Reynolds
Original Size: 133.4 x 118.7 cm
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA

Lady Smith and Her Children 1787
Oil Painting
$2497
$2497
Canvas Print
$58.78
$58.78
SKU: RSJ-17497
Sir Joshua Reynolds
Original Size: 140.7 x 112 cm
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA
Sir Joshua Reynolds
Original Size: 140.7 x 112 cm
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA

Mrs. Horton, Later Viscountess Maynard Undated
Oil Painting
$1422
$1422
Canvas Print
$55.97
$55.97
SKU: RSJ-17498
Sir Joshua Reynolds
Original Size: 92 x 71 cm
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA
Sir Joshua Reynolds
Original Size: 92 x 71 cm
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA

Captain John Gell 1786
Oil Painting
$1301
$1301
Canvas Print
$59.05
$59.05
SKU: RSJ-17499
Sir Joshua Reynolds
Original Size: 127 x 101.5 cm
Maritime Art Museum, Greenwich, United Kingdom
Sir Joshua Reynolds
Original Size: 127 x 101.5 cm
Maritime Art Museum, Greenwich, United Kingdom

Anne, Viscountess Townsend, Later Marchioness Townshend c.1779/80
Oil Painting
$2295
$2295
Canvas Print
$48.60
$48.60
SKU: RSJ-17500
Sir Joshua Reynolds
Original Size: 241.3 x 147.3 cm
Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, California, USA
Sir Joshua Reynolds
Original Size: 241.3 x 147.3 cm
Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, California, USA

Lady Sunderlin 1786
Oil Painting
$2218
$2218
Canvas Print
$48.60
$48.60
SKU: RSJ-17501
Sir Joshua Reynolds
Original Size: 238.5 x 147.5 cm
Gemaldegalerie, Berlin, Germany
Sir Joshua Reynolds
Original Size: 238.5 x 147.5 cm
Gemaldegalerie, Berlin, Germany

Portrait of Mrs. Richard Crofts 1775
Oil Painting
$1669
$1669
Canvas Print
$64.94
$64.94
SKU: RSJ-17502
Sir Joshua Reynolds
Original Size: 131 x 117 cm
Private Collection
Sir Joshua Reynolds
Original Size: 131 x 117 cm
Private Collection

A Young Girl and Her Dog 1780
Oil Painting
$937
$937
Canvas Print
$60.25
$60.25
SKU: RSJ-18971
Sir Joshua Reynolds
Original Size: 77.5 x 63.5 cm
Fuji Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan
Sir Joshua Reynolds
Original Size: 77.5 x 63.5 cm
Fuji Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan