Tag: Reynolds

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…

Frances, Countess of Dartmouth (1756)

Reynolds, Joshua (1723-1792) Frances, Countess of Dartmouth 1756 Oil on canvas, 127 x 102 cm Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid The present portrait of Frances, Countess of Dartmouth was acquired for the Thyssen-Bornemisza collection in 1977 from the UK art market. As with…