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 ).

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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

During his lifetime, Scott's portrait was painted by Sir Edwin Landseer and fellow-Scots Sir Henry Raeburn and James Eckford Lauder.

Many portraits were painted of Somerset Maugham, including that by Graham Sutherland in the Tate Gallery, and several by Sir Gerald Kelly.

Sir Joseph Banks ( center ), together with Omai ( left ) and Daniel Solander, as painted by William Parry, ca.

1714, the year of his succession, as painted by Godfrey Kneller | Sir Godfrey Kneller.

Although Holbein did not work for the king during this visit, he painted the portraits of courtiers such as Sir Henry Guildford and his wife Lady Mary, and of Anne Lovell, recently identified as the subject of Lady with a Squirrel and a Starling.

The Princess of Wales, painted by Godfrey Kneller | Sir Godfrey Kneller in 1716

He also painted Mary, Queen of Scots, Sir Nicholas Bacon, Sir Francis Walsingham, Lord High Admiral Howard.

Cornelis Tromp, 1629 – 1691 by Sir Peter Lely, painted c. 1675.

In order to make the Lincoln chapter house appear similar to the Westminster Chapter House, murals were painted on a special layer over the existing wall, and elsewhere polystyrene replicas of Sir Isaac Newton's tomb and other Abbey monuments were set up.

Sir William Kirkcaldy of Grange, painted by Jean Clouet

Sir William Drury, painted by an unknown artist

When his portrait was painted by Sir William Boxall in 1848, the young Whistler exclaimed that the portrait was " very much like me and a very fine picture.

The Grill Room 1876 – 81 was designed by Sir Edward Poynter, the lower part of the walls consist of blue and white tiles with various figures and foliage enclosed by wood panelling, above there are large tiled scenes with figures depicting the four seasons and the twelve months these were painted by ladies from the Art School then based in the museum, the windows are also stained glass, there is an elaborate cast iron grill still in place.

Chill October ( Collection of Sir Andrew Lloyd Webber ), was the first of the large-scale Scottish Landscapes Millais painted periodically throughout his later career.

In the parish church of St. Nicholas can be found the ornate tomb of Sir William Paston ; the remains of medieval painted screens ; a telescopic Gothic font canopy ; a unique Royal Arms Board ; an ancient iron bound chest ; and many other ancient artifacts.

In his pocket-book her name as “ Miss Angelica ” or “ Miss Angel ” appears frequently ; and in 1766 he painted her, a compliment which she returned by her Portrait of Sir Joshua Reynolds.

The difference between them is said to have been widened by Burke ’ s growing intimacy with Sir Joshua Reynolds, and by Barry ’ s jealousy of the fame and fortune of his rival “ in a humbler walk of the art .” About the same time he painted a pair of classical subjects, Mercury inventing the lyre, and Narcissus, the last suggested to him by Burke.

Warren Hastings, during his time in England, as painted by Joshua Reynolds | Sir Joshua Reynolds in 1767 – 68.

His major works include The Chinese Convert ( 1687 ); a series of four portraits of Isaac Newton painted at various junctures of the latter's life ; a series of ten reigning European monarchs, including King Louis XIV of France ; over 40 " Kit-cat portraits " of members of the Kit-Cat Club ; and ten " beauties " of the court of William III, to match a similar series of ten beauties of the court of Charles II painted by his predecessor as court painter, Sir Peter Lely.

The Madonna and Saints ( which passed from the Duchatel collection to the Louvre ), the Virgin and Child ( painted for Sir John Donne and now at the National Gallery, London ), and the four attributed portraits in the Uffizi Gallery of Florence ( including the Portrait of Folco Portinari ), show that his work was widely appreciated in the 16th century.

The Duchess of Leinster painted by Joshua Reynolds | Sir Joshua Reynolds in the 1770s.