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Sir Joshua Reynolds PRA FRS FRSA (16 July 1723 – 23 February 1792) was an English painter who specialised in portraits. John Russell said he was one of the major European painters of the 18th century. [1] . He promoted the "Grand Style" in painting, which depended on idealisation of the imperfect.
2 days ago · Joshua Peter Reynolds born 1999 is a British politician who has been the Member of Parliament for Maidenhead since being elected in 2024. A member of the Liberal Democrats , he took the seat from the Conservative Party after the former prime minister Theresa May stood down for the 2024 parliamentary election. [3]
Joshua Reynolds (born July 16, 1723, Plympton, Devon, England—died February 23, 1792, London) was a portrait painter and aesthetician who dominated English artistic life in the middle and late 18th century.
Sir Joshua Reynolds RA FRS FRSA (16 July 1723 – 23 February 1792) was an English painter, specialising in portraits. John Russell said he was one of the major European painters of the 18th Century.
1723 - 1792. Reynolds was the leading English portraitist of the 18th century. Through study of ancient and Italian Renaissance art, and of the work of Rembrandt, Rubens and Van Dyck, he brought great variety and dignity to British portraiture.
The Royal Academy’s first president, Joshua Reynolds, was considered the leading portrait painter of his day and a key figure in the Academy. Still in print today, and widely translated, his groundbreaking Discourses in Art were hugely influential on the development of British art.
Inspired to become an artist by Jonathan Richardson's elevated Essay on the Theory of Painting, Reynolds was apprenticed in 1740 to Thomas Hudson, the most fashionable portraitist of the day, with whom he remained until 1743.
