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Joshua Reynolds
English painter (1723–1792)
For other uses, see Joshua Reynolds (disambiguation).
Sir Joshua Reynolds (16 July 1723 – 23 February 1792) was an English painter who specialised in portraits.
Art critic John Russell called him one of the major European painters of the 18th century[1] while Lucy Peltz says he was "the leading portrait artist of the 18th-century and arguably one of the greatest artists in the history of art."[2] He promoted the "Grand Style" in painting, which depended on idealisation of the imperfect.
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He was a founder and first president of the Royal Academy of Arts and was knighted by George III in 1769.
Early life
Reynolds was born in Plympton, Devon, on 16 July 1723,[3] as the third son of the Reverend Samuel Reynolds (1681–1745), master of the Plympton Free Grammar School in the town.
His father had been a fellow of Balliol College, Oxford, but did not send any of his sons to the university.[4]