Jacques-Louis David, Sir Henry Raeburn, Sir Joshua Reynolds, Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres, Thomas Gainsborough, Antonio Canova, Arnold Bocklin

It was as the last character in Love for Love that Sir Joshua Reynolds painted his best portrait of her.

Joshua Hassan ( a young lawyer then, later Sir and Chief Minister ) was among the leading members of the association.

Sir Joshua Reynolds RA FRS FRSA ( 16 July 1723 – 23 February 1792 ) was an influential 18th-century English painter, specialising in portraits and promoting the " Grand Style " in painting which depended on idealization of the imperfect.

Critics include many of the Pre-Raphaelites, and William Blake, the latter having published his vitriolic Annotations to Sir Joshua Reynolds ' Discourses in 1808.

Sir Joshua Reynolds was on very many accounts one of the most memorable men of his Time.

In the editorial notes of his compendium Portraits by Sir Joshua Reynolds, Hilles theorizes that " as a corollary one might say that he was somewhat lacking in a capacity for love ", and cites Boswell's notary papers: " He said the reason he would never marry was that every woman whom he liked had grown indifferent to him, and he had been < u > glad </ u > he did not marry her.

File: Captain the Honourable Augustus Keppel 1725-86 by Sir Joshua Reynolds. jpg | Captain the Honourable Augustus Keppel in the pose of the Apollo Belvedere, 1753

File: Sir Joshua Reynolds-Colonel Acland and Lord Sydney-The Archers-Google Art Project. jpg | Colonel Acland and Lord Sydney, The Archers, 1769.

File:. Fig 1 Sir Joshua Reynolds The Age of Innocence.

Taylor, Life and Times of Sir Joshua Reynolds ( London: John Murray, 1865, 2 volumes ).

* Martin Postle, ‘ Reynolds, Sir Joshua ( 1723 – 1792 )’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004 ; online edn, Oct 2009.

* A. Graves and W. V. Cronin, A History of the Works of Sir Joshua Reynolds ( 1899 – 1901, 4 volumes ).

* F. W. Hilles, The Literary Career of Sir Joshua Reynolds ( 1936 ).

* Derek Hudson, Sir Joshua Reynolds: A Personal Study ( 1958 ).

), The Letters of Sir Joshua Reynolds ( 2000 ).

), The Works of Sir Joshua Reynolds ( 1798, 3 volumes ).

* D. Mannings, Sir Joshua Reynolds PRA, 1723 – 92 ( 1992 ).

* J. Northcote, Memoirs of Sir Joshua Reynolds, knt.

* J. Northcote, The Life of Sir Joshua Reynolds ( 1818, 2nd edition, 2 volumes ).

* Martin Postle, Sir Joshua Reynolds: The Subject Pictures ( 1995 ).

* The National Gallery: Sir Joshua Reynolds

* Artcyclopedia: Sir Joshua Reynolds

One of Keppel's lawyers commissioned Sir Nathaniel Dance-Holland to paint a portrait of Keppel but Keppel redirected it to Reynolds.

On 10 November Reynolds wrote to Benjamin West to resign the Presidency, but the General Assembly agreed that Reynolds should be re-elected, with Sir William Chambers and West to deputise for him.

The doctors Richard Warren and Sir George Baker believed Reynolds ' illness to be psychological and they bled his neck " with a view of drawing the humour from his eyes " but the effect of this in the view of his niece was that it seemed " as if the ' principle of life ' were gone " from Reynolds.

File: Reynolds Sir Joshua-Lady Caroline Howard. jpg | Lady Caroline Howard, 1778

Boole's views were given in four published addresses: The Genius of Sir Isaac Newton ; The Right Use of Leisure ; The Claims of Science ; and The Social Aspect of Intellectual Culture.

His early skill in, and Genius for this noble science recommended him, when about 18 years of age, to the favour and esteem of his great master and predecessor, Sir Christopher Wren, under whom, during his life, and for himself since his death, he was concerned in the erecting more Publick ( sic ) Edifices, than any one life, among the moderns at least, can boast of.

Maxim wrote an amusing account of his youth in the book A Genius in the Family: Sir Hiram Stevens Maxim Through a Small Son's Eyes.

Historiometry started in the early 19th century with studies on the relationship between age and achievement by Belgian mathematician Adolphe Quetelet in the careers of prominent French and English playwrights but it was Sir Francis Galton, a pioneering English eugenist who popularized historiometry in his 1869 work, Hereditary Genius.

The Genius of Shakespeare was praised by Sir Peter Hall, founder of the RSC, as " the best modern book on Shakespeare ".

When the British governor of Uganda, Sir Harry Johnston, discovered some pygmy inhabitants of the Congo being abducted by a showman for exhibition, he rescued them and promised to return them to their homes.

At the 2011 Chelsea Flower Show, an exhibition garden celebrated the historic link between naturalist Sir Joseph Banks and the botanical discoveries of flora and fauna on his journey through South America, Tahiti, New Zealand and eventually Australia on Captain Cook's ship Endeavour.

Sir Michael Levey, curator of the National Portrait Gallery's 1979-80 Lawrence exhibition, produced books on the artist in 1979 and 2005.

The Royal Academy rejected it, then grudgingly accepted it after lobbying by Sir William Boxall — but then hung the painting in an unfavorable location at its exhibition.

The Royal Academy of Arts was formed as the RSA's spin-off organisation in 1768 by Thomas Gainsborough and Sir Joshua Reynolds, two early members of the RSA, as a result of first exhibition of contemporary art.

At the end of the exhibition, an entrepreneur Arthur Elvin ( later to become Sir Arthur Elvin ) started buying the derelict buildings one by one, demolishing them, and selling off the scrap.

The site also features a number of purpose-built exhibition buildings, such as the Stirling Prize-winning American Air Museum, designed by Sir Norman Foster.

* TateShots: Sir Peter Blake and The Museum of Everything About an exhibition curated by Peter Blake.

His contributions to the Academy exhibition of 1809 included a portrait of Sir Joseph Banks ( engraved by Niccolo Schiavonetti ), and to that of 1814, two portraits of Lord Byron ( engraved by Robert Graves, A. R. A ( 1798 – 1873 ).

His huge sarcophagus, carved in one piece and intricately decorated on every surface ( including the goddess Nut on the interior base ), is in Sir John Soane's Museum, in London, England ; Soane bought it for exhibition in his open collection in 1824, when the British Museum refused to pay the £ 2, 000 demanded.

The painting, however, brought him denunciation from Sir William Chambers, president of the Royal Academy, who objected to its being exhibited privately in advance of the Academy's exhibition.

2012 is the 500th anniversary of the birth of Queen Katherine Parr and a series of events is planned at Sudeley Castle to commemorate its most remarkable former resident, including a new exhibition with a film introduced by Sir David Starkey, talks by writers and historians and Tudor Fun Days.

Also in that year, the polytechnic held the Design in a Polytechnic exhibition, which was opened at a reception hosted by Sir Duncan Oppenheim, the chairman of the Council of Industrial Design.

On 14 December 1986, 582 days after the fire, The Hon Sir Oliver Popplewell, who had conducted the inquiry into the fire, opened the new stadium before an exhibition match against an England international XI.

In 1956 the company celebrated its centenary with an exhibition at the Waldorf Hotel opened by Sir John Wilson.

The exhibition contains some photographs of a number of world famous people including the aviator Amy Johnson, World War 1 flying Ace Wing Commander Ira Jones, Motor Racer Sir Malcolm Campbell and Parry Thomas, both of whom attempted World Land Speed Records at the famous Pendine sands.

* John Soane and the Wooden Bridges of Switzerland: Architecture and the Culture of Technology from Palladio to Grubenmanns, catalogue of an exhibition at Sir John Soane's Museum, ISBN 88-87624-24-0

A photograph of Sir Les Patterson by Simon Leigh also formed part of Leigh's exhibition at the Royal Festival Hall in 2000.

Roberts was offended that the catalogue ‘ would lead the uninitiated to suppose that the artists designated as " Other Vorticists " are in some way subservient to Lewis ', and published a series of ' Vortex Pamphlets ' in which he railed against the exhibition, the catalogue, the press coverage and the account of his own career contained in Modern English Painters by the Tate's director, Sir John Rothenstein, which appeared at about the same time.

The exhibition included works by William McLaren, Anne Redpath and Sir Joseph Noel Paton.

The site also features a number of purpose-built exhibition buildings, such as the Stirling Prize-winning American Air Museum, designed by Sir Norman Foster.

The Empire Pool became the Wembley Arena, and at the suggestion of the chair of the exhibition committee, Scotsman Sir James Stevenson, the Empire Stadium was kept ; it became Wembley Stadium, the home of Football in England until 2002 when it was demolished to be replaced by a new stadium.

At the trial in February 1679 of the prisoners accused of the murder of Sir Edmund Godfrey he gave a characteristic exhibition of his methods, indulging in a tirade against the Roman Catholic religion, and loudly proclaiming his belief in the guilt of the accused.

The building, now named the Sir Francis Cook Gallery, serves as an exhibition space.