Charlotte Brooks
Joshua reynolds
Explore the extraordinary artistry of Joshua Reynolds and his profound impact on the world of painting. Discover his iconic portraits and learn about his enduring legacy in the art world.
At the National Portrait Gallery in London, you will find the Portrait of Mai (Omai), circa 1753-80, painted by Sir Joshua Reynolds around 1776. Reynolds's depiction of Mai, the first Polynesian to visit Britain, marks the first British painting to portray a person of colour with dignity and grandeur. Known as “Omai” in England, Mai (ca. 1753-1779) was a native of Raiatea, an island now part of French Polynesia, who travelled from Tahiti to England with Captain James Cook. He spent the years…
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Joshua Reynolds - Mrs Abington as the Comic Muse - oil on canvas - Waddesdon
Alexander Hersh
Mrs Siddons as the Tragic Muse by Joshua Reynolds, 1789. Oil on canvas.
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Sir Joshua Reynolds, P.R.A. (Plympton 1723-1792 London), Portrait of Elizabeth Falconer, Mrs. Stanhope, as Contemplation, three-quarter-length, in a white satin dress, before a draped curtain…
Portrait of Elizabeth Falconer, Mrs. Stanhope, as Contemplation, three-quarter-length, in a white satin dress, before a draped curtain
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Category:Female portraits by Joshua Reynolds - Wikimedia Commons
Sumanta Ghosh
In the tableaux vivants scene of Edith Wharton's House of Mirth, Lily Bart's posture announces that she is herself as a work of art. She stands on display, showing what she has, and the moment at which she is most herself is also the one in which she most becomes a thing, an object consumed by those eyes, and consumed perhaps in other ways as well. For art is often sold. Lily has here turned herself into a commodity, and poses as if she’s up for auction. The scene works to literalize the…
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Joshua Reynolds
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Emily Warren, also known as Emily Bertie Pott, was an eighteenth-century courtesan. Stunningly beautiful, she left the London slums of her birth behind...
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Category:Female portraits by Joshua Reynolds - Wikimedia Commons
Sumanta Ghosh