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Sir Joshua Reynolds Very Important And Rare Self Portrait In Royal Academy Robes

Sir Joshua Reynolds Very Important And Rare Self Portrait In Royal Academy Robes
Sir Joshua Reynolds Very Important And Rare Self Portrait In Royal Academy Robes
Sir Joshua Reynolds Very Important And Rare Self Portrait In Royal Academy Robes
Sir Joshua Reynolds Very Important And Rare Self Portrait In Royal Academy Robes
Sir Joshua Reynolds Very Important And Rare Self Portrait In Royal Academy Robes
Sir Joshua Reynolds Very Important And Rare Self Portrait In Royal Academy Robes
Sir Joshua Reynolds Very Important And Rare Self Portrait In Royal Academy Robes

Sir Joshua Reynolds Very Important And Rare Self Portrait In Royal Academy Robes

Sir Joshua Reynolds Very Important And Rare Self Portrait In Royal Academy Robes. Size: 12 3/8 x 10 7/8 inches (painting size). Frame: 19 1/4 x 17 1/4 inches (antique frame).

Private Collection, Connecticut Private Collection, Florida. This painting is being offered for sale "as is" with no warrantees regarding authenticity.

Exhibition catalogue'Sir Joshua Reynolds: The Acquisition of Genius', Plymouth City Museum and Art Gallery, Burlington Magazine, March 2010. James Boswell, Life of Johnson (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008). Charles Robert Leslie and Tom Taylor, Life and Times of Sir Joshua Reynolds (London: John Murray, 1865, 2 volumes). The Life and Times of the First President of the Royal Academy (London: Allen Lane, 2003).

Sir Joshua Reynolds was 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. Reynolds' self-portraits reveal an alert, open-eyed young man, taken with the novelty of seeing his own image before him.

His last self portrait perhaps deliberately, is a mirror image of the first, the only difference being the effects of time in a sadly aged face [1788, Private Collection]. Those in between allow us to chart his development as a painter, from the clear confidence and prosperity of the c. 1779/80 Royal Academy paintings to later examples in which he is seen as deaf snd bespectacled. Like the self-portraits of Rembrandt, these masterful paintings provide a detailed autobiographical progression of character, time and talent. This item is in the category "Art\Paintings". The seller is "wewo-2015" and is located in this country: US. This item can be shipped to United States.
  • Artist: Sir Joshua Reynolds
  • Size: Small
  • Material: Canvas
  • Item Length: 11 in
  • Region of Origin: England
  • Subject: Portrait
  • Type: Painting
  • Year of Production: Circa 1750
  • Item Height: 13 in
  • Style: Realism
  • Features: One of a Kind (OOAK)
  • Production Technique: Oil Painting
  • Culture: Britsh
  • Time Period Produced: 1750-1799

Sir Joshua Reynolds Very Important And Rare Self Portrait In Royal Academy Robes