Tag: Reynolds

Catherine the Great

(1729–1796) born Princess Sophie Friederike Auguste of Anhalt-Zerbst Catherine II, Empress of Russia (1762–1796) Works commissioned by her: Reynolds, Joshua (1723-1792) The Infant Hercules c.1785–1789 Princeton University Art Museum, Princeton     Reynolds, Joshua (1723-1792) Infant Hercules Strangling Serpents 1786 Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg…

The Infant Hercules (c.1785-1789)

Reynolds, Joshua (1723-1792) The Infant Hercules c.1785–1789 Oil on millboard, 25.5 × 21 cm Princeton University Art Museum, Princeton This is believed to be a preparatory sketch for a history painting commissioned by Catherine the Great, with the subject left to…

John Constable

(1776–1837) The artist’s works: Houses on a Riverbank c.1794 Princeton University Art Museum, Princeton Study of a Female Nude 1811 Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford Wivenhoe Park, Essex 1816 National Gallery of Art, Washington A cottage in a cornfield 1817 National Museum Wales, Cardiff The White…

William Wordsworth

(1770–1850) Works: • Lyrical Ballads, with a Few Other Poems,1798 (English) • Lyrical Ballads, with Other Poems, 1800, Volume 1 (English) • Lyrical Ballads with Other Poems, 1800, Volume 2 (English) • Poems, Volume 1 (English) • Poems, Volume 2 (English)…

Cupid as Link Boy (1774)

Reynolds, Joshua (1723-1792) Cupid as Link Boy 1774 Oil on canvas, 76.2 x 63.5 cm Buffalo AKG Art Museum, Buffalo Joshua Reynolds’s portrait transforms a sight common to the streets of eighteenth-century London—a child worker lighting torches—into an allegory. “Link boys,”…

A Caricature Group (c.1751)

Reynolds, Joshua (1723-1792) A Caricature Group (Sir Charles Turner, Mr. Cook, Mr. John Woodyeare, and Rev. Dr. William Drake) c.1751 Oil on canvas, 62.9 x 48.3 cm Rhode Island School of Design, Providence

Portrait of a Clergyman (1756-1760)

Reynolds, Joshua (1723-1792) Portrait of a Clergyman 1756–1760 Oil on canvas, 77 x 64 cm Museo del Prado, Madrid This is an early work by Reynolds. It lacks the verve and brilliance of his later output but is imbued with a…