Reynolds, Joshua - Child's Portrait in different view 'Angel Heads' art postcard

Art Postcard
• Work of art title: A Child's Portrait in Difefrent Views: 'Angel Heads' 1786/7
• Artist (if known):  Sir Jushua Reynolds
• Media or other details:  oil on canvas
• Publisher / Gallery: Tate Gallery, c.1990s
• Postally used:  no
• Stamp & postmark details (if relevant): na
• Size: modern
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Stock No.: A253

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Text from the free encyclopedia WIKIPEDIA may appear below to give a little background information:

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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. He was one of the founders and first President of the Royal Academy. King George III appreciated his merits and knighted him in 1769.

Showing an early interest in art, Reynolds was apprenticed in 1740 to the fashionable portrait painter Thomas Hudson, with whom he remained until 1743. In 1749, Reynolds became friend with Augustus Keppel, a naval officer, and they both sailed on the Centurion to the Mediterranean. Whilst on board, Reynolds wrote later, ""I had the use of his cabin and his study of books, as if they had been my own"".^[2] From 1749 to 1752, he spent over two years in Italy, where he studied the Old Masters and acquired a taste for the ""Grand Style"". Unfortunately, whilst in Rome, Reynolds suffered a severe cold which left him partially deaf, and, as a result, he began to carry a small ear trumpet with which he is often pictured. From 1753 until the end of his life, he lived in London, his talents gaining recognition soon after his arrival in France.

Reynolds worked long hours in his studio, rarely taking a holiday. He was both gregarious and keenly intellectual, with a great number of friends from London's intelligentsia, numbered amongst whom were Dr Samuel Johnson, Oliver Goldsmith, Edmund Burke, Giuseppe Baretti, Henry Thrale, David Garrick and fellow artist Angelica Kauffmann. Johnson said in 1778: ""Reynolds is too much under Fox and Burke at present. He is under the Fox star and the Irish constellation [meaning Burke]. He is always under some planet"".^[4]

Because of his popularity as a portrait painter, Reynolds enjoyed constant interaction with the wealthy and famous men and women of the day, and it was he who first brought together the famous figures of ""The"" Club. By 1761 Reynolds could command a fee of 80 Guineas for a full-length portrait (Mr Fane); in 1764 he was paid 100 Guineas for a portrait of Lord Burghersh.^[5]

With his rival Thomas Gainsborough, Reynolds was the dominant English portraitist of 'the Age of Johnson'. It is said that in his long life he painted as many as three thousand portraits. Although not principally known for his landscapes, Reynolds did paint in this genre. He had an excellent vantage from his house on Richmond Hill, and painted the view in about 1780.^[6]