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Along with his ambitious full-length portraits, Reynolds painted large numbers of smaller works.

In the late 1750s, at the height of the social season, he was receiving five or six sitters a day, each for an hour at a time.

By 1761 Reynolds could command a fee of 80 guineas for a full-length portrait ; in 1764 he was paid 100 guineas for a portrait of Lord Burghersh.