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Joshua Reynolds
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Definition:[1723 – 1792]an English painter, specialising in portraits. John Russell said he was one of the major European painters of the 18th Century. He promoted the "Grand Style" in painting which depended on idealization of the imperfect. He was a founder and first president of the Royal Academy of Arts, and was knighted by George III in 1769.text from Wikipedia, licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike,
image 1:self portrait (1750), https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=21975516image 2: of Edward Cornwallis (1756), https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=19355632
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Omai, as the first native of the South Sea Islands who had been seen in England, was made a great deal of by people of all ranks. He was introduced to George the Third, who settled on him a pension while he remained in England. He had his portrait painted by Sir Joshua Reynolds, and Cowper mentions him in one of his poems, while he was constantly in the society of Dr Johnson, Madame d’Arblay, Sir Joseph Banks, Dr Burney, Lord Sandwich, Lord Mulgrave, Granville Sharpe, and many other illustrious persons. The power of imitation is strong among his people, and he, therefore, very quickly copied the manners of the people with whom he associated, and became, in appearance, a polished gentleman.
WHG Kingston. Captain Cook - His Life, Voyages, and Discoveries.
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—his whole attitude had been easy—natural—unforced: Reynolds himself, as great and gracefully as he paints, might have painted him as he sat.
Laurence Sterne. The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman (1759)
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It was the picture of a young and beautiful girl, with the features and costume of a Sir Joshua. I recognized the face at once as that of a lady whose portrait by Gainsborough hangs on the walls of my uncle's dining-room at Whittingham Abbey.
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"I know what is good when I see it, and I see it now. That's a Kneller, I'll swear, that lady in the blue silk over yonder, and the stout gentleman with the wig ought to be a Reynolds. They are all family portraits, I presume?"
Arthur Conan Doyle. Sherlock Holmes: The Hound of the Baskervilles (1902)
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