Joshua Reynolds

Self-Portrait (c. 1748) by Joshua Reynolds, aged 24, at the National Gallery, London (Photo courtesy of the National Gallery)
Self-Portrait (c. 1748) by Joshua Reynolds, aged 24, at the National Gallery, London
Self-Portrait (c. 1748) by Joshua Reynolds, aged 24, at the National Gallery, London, Joshua Reynolds, General (Photo courtesy of the National Gallery)
Self-Portrait (c. 1776)  by Joshua Reynolds, aged 53, at the Uffizi Gallery, Florence, Joshua Reynolds, General (Photo by Poject Gutenberg)

A baroque painter of fussy British portraits set in Renaissance-style scenes

Joshua Reynolds (1723-92) was a somewhat fussy Baroque traditionalist, the first president of Britain's Royal Academy, and a firm believer in the of art painting's duty to celebrate history.

Reynolds spent much of his career casting his noble patrons as ancient gods in portrait compositions cribbed from Old Masters.

Many of Reynold's works in England are in: 

Selected works by Joshua Reynolds in England


Self-portrait of Sir Joshua Reynolds at age 24 (c. 1748) in the National Portrait Gallery, London

Three Ladies Adorning a Term of Hymen (1773) by Joshua Reynolds in the Tate Britain, London

Where to find works by Joshua Reynolds in England