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

Reynolds, then acting wholly upon the biased assumption of the storekeeper, determined that the man in question was Orrin Porter Rockwell, a close associate of the Mormon prophet Joseph Smith, Jr .. Reynolds eventually caught Orrin Porter Rockwell and held him for almost a year while he awaited trial.

Reynolds contacted the district attorney and asked for the charges against his nephew's alleged killers to be dropped ; the prosecutor eventually did so for lack of evidence, and no trial on the matter was ever held.

However, the trial court refused this request and instructed the jury that if they found that Reynolds, under religious influence, " deliberately married a second time, having a first wife living, the want of consciousness of evil intent — the want of understanding on his part that he was committing crime — did not excuse him, but the law inexorably, in such cases, implies criminal intent.

During his original trial, Reynolds had challenged two jurors, both of whom had stated that they had formed an opinion on the guilt or innocence of Reynolds before the trial.

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.

Reynolds often adapted the poses of his subjects from the works of earlier artists, a practice mocked by Nathaniel Hone in a painting called The Conjuror submitted to the Royal Academy exhibition of 1775, and now in the collection of the National Gallery of Ireland.

File: Mrs Siddons by Joshua Reynolds. jpg | Sarah Siddons as the Tragic Muse, painting at The Huntington, San Marino, California

A steel engraving of Sir William Jones, after a painting by Sir Joshua Reynolds.

During the Rococo era Portraiture was an important component of painting in all countries, but especially in Great Britain, where the leaders were William Hogarth ( 1697 – 1764 ), in a blunt realist style, and Francis Hayman ( 1708 – 1776 ), Angelica Kauffman who was Swiss, ( 1741 – 1807 ), Thomas Gainsborough and Joshua Reynolds ( 1723 – 1792 ), in more flattering styles influenced by Antony Van Dyck ( 1599 – 1641 ).

Under the direction of Sir Joshua Reynolds, the Academy made a strong effort to promote history painting to a native audience who were more interested in commissioning and buying portraits and landscapes.

The painting now hangs in the Salvador Dalí Museum in St. Petersburg, Florida which provides a permanent home for the collection of A. Reynolds Morse & Eleanor R. Morse.

In 1775 he left Reynolds, and about two years later, having made some money by portrait painting back in Devon, he went to study in Italy.

Raeburn was unusual amongst many of his contemporaries, such as Reynolds, in the extent of his philosophy of painting everything directly from life.

" “ In England, what West and Copley did together was to create a new kind of history painting, one with modern, topical subjects, chiefly death scenes of heroes, in a historic manner, but with scrupulous attention to contemporary detail ” ( Johnson 441 ) The American was duly introduced to Sir Joshua Reynolds and was taken to " the Royal where the Students had a naked model from which they were Drawing.

Although originally snubbed by Sir Joshua Reynolds, the famous portrait painter and President of the Royal Academy, and others as over ambitious, the painting became one of the most frequently reproduced images of the period.

( painting by Sir Joshua Reynolds )

Though Reynolds agreed with Félibien about the natural order of the genres, he held that an important work from any genre of painting could be produced under the hand of genius: " Whether it is the human figure, an animal, or even inanimate objects, there is nothing, however unpromising in appearance, but may be raised into dignity, convey sentiment, and produce emotion, in the hands of a painter of genius.

( Oil painting by Joshua Reynolds, 1765 ).

Alexander Hamilton at age 15, in a painting by Joshua Reynolds.

In the modern popular mind, English art from about 1750 – 1790 — what is sometimes called the " classical age " of English painting — was dominated by the closely contemporary figures of Sir Joshua Reynolds ( 1723 – 1792 ), George Stubbs ( 1724 – 1806 ), and Thomas Gainsborough ( 1727 – 1788 ), with Joseph Wright of Derby ( 1734 – 1797 ) perhaps equally well-known.

History painting in the grand manner continued to be the most prestigious form of art, though not the easiest to sell, and Reynolds made several attempts at it, as unsuccessful as Hogarth's.

In his book Remarks on Rural Scenery, Smith quotes a 1783 work by Sir Joshua Reynolds, in which Reynolds discusses, in unquantified terms, the balance of dark and light in a painting.

Writing in 1845, in his book Chromatics, George Field notes ( perhaps erroneously ) that Sir Joshua Reynolds gives the ratio 2: 1 as a rule for the proportion of warm to cold colors in a painting, and attributes to Smith the expansion of that rule to all proportions in painting:

In 2001, The Donald W. Reynolds Foundation committed $ 30 million to buy the painting and created a permanent home for it at the National Portrait Gallery where it had previously been on anonymous loan.

* 47 Leicester Square, London gallery and painting room for Sir Joshua Reynolds, attributed ( also attributed to William Chambers ( architect )) ( 1760 – 61 )

During the painting, several influential people, including Sir Joshua Reynolds, instructed him to dress the figures in classical attire, and after its completion, George III refused to purchase it because the clothing compromised the dignity of the event.

The corporation was formed by the Reynolds Metal Co. and the Samuel A. and Henry A. Berger firm, a Philadelphia builder, for work in the project.

This was achieved with the invention of the dimensionless Reynolds number by Osborne Reynolds.

The 1990s saw the development of Earthships, similar in intent to the Ark project, but organized as a for-profit venture, with construction details published in a series of 3 books by Mike Reynolds.

However, Edwards states that more of the changes suggested by High Anglicans were implemented ( though by no means all ) and Spurr comments that ( except in the case of the Ordinal ) the suggestions of the ' Laudians ' ( Cosin and Matthew Wren ) were not taken up possibly due to the influence of moderates like Sanderson and Reynolds.

McClary was replaced by guitarist / vocalist Sheldon Reynolds.

# The final piece of the puzzle, thermal transpiration, was theorized by Osborne Reynolds, but first published by James Clerk Maxwell in the last paper before his death in 1879.

* 1993 – History of Northern Ireland: The Downing Street Declaration is issued by British Prime Minister John Major and Irish Taoiseach Albert Reynolds.

The Dons sustained numerous injuries in the preliminary final and the selectors sprang a surprise on grand final day by naming the officially retired Dick Reynolds as 20th man.

This was later changed by the AFL to Skeeta Reynolds.

John Byron, by Joshua Reynolds, 1759.

Portrait by Joshua Reynolds.

Hawks schrewdly began to hire many of the aviation experts and cameramen that had been employed by Hughes, including Elmer Dyer, Harry Reynolds and Ira Reed.

This niceness actually backfired for Reynolds: prior to accepting the lead in W. W. and the Dixie Dancekings ( 1975 ), directed by John G. Avildsen, Reynolds asked Lemmon, who Avildsen had directed in Save the Tiger ( 1973 ) for advice about Avildsen as a director.

Reynolds made extracts in his commonplace book from Theophrastus, Plutarch, Seneca, Marcus Antonius, Ovid, William Shakespeare, John Milton, Alexander Pope, John Dryden, Joseph Addison, Richard Steele, Aphra Behn and passages on art theory by Leonardo da Vinci, Charles Alphonse Du Fresnoy, and André Félibien.

Hudson had a collection of old master drawings, including some by Guercino, of which Reynolds made copies.

The clothing of the sitters in Reynolds ' portraits was usually painted either by one his pupils, his studio assistant Giuseppe Marchi, or the specialist drapery painter Peter Toms James Northcote, his pupil, wrote of this arrangement that " the imitation of particular stuffs is not the work of genius, but is to be acquired easily by practice, and this was what his pupils could do by care and time more than he himself chose to bestow ; but his own slight and masterly work was still the best.

They cultivated only those arts which could add splendor to the nation, to the neglect of those which supported it – They neglected Trade & substantial Manufacture ... but does it follow that a total revolution is necessary that because we have given ourselves up too much to the ornaments of life, we will now have none at all ". When attending a dinner at Holland House, Fox's niece Caroline was sat next to Reynolds and " burst out into glorification of the Revolution – and was grievously chilled and checked by her neighbour's cautious and unsympathetic tone ".