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Sir Joshua Reynolds

[English Rococo Era Painter, 1723-1792]

• Relationships: Studied under Thomas Hudson.
Reynolds' many students included Sir Henry Raeburn, Hugh Barron, Thomas Beach, Carl Fredrik von Breda, William Doughty, John Hoppner, John Hamilton Mortimer, George Engleheart, James Northcote, William Owen and Archibald Robertson.
• Subject matter:  Specializes in Portraits.
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Original works by Sir Joshua Reynolds available for purchase at art galleries worldwide
 
 
Paintings in Museums and Public Art Galleries:
Art Institute of Chicago Collection Database
Madonna and Child with Two Angels, drawing after Correggio

Dallas Museum of Art, Texas
Portrait of Miss Mary Pelham, ca.1757

Sir Joshua Reynolds at the Detroit Institute of Arts, Michigan

Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco
6 works by Sir Joshua Reynolds

Fitzwilliam Museum at the University of Cambridge, UK

Fitzwilliam Museum PHAROS Website, Cambridge, UK

Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg, Russia
The Continence of Scipio, 1789
The Infant Hercules Strangling the Serpents, 1786
Cupid Untying the Zone of Venus, 1788

Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indiana

Kunsthistorisches Museum Databank, Vienna (in German)  

Sir Joshua Reynolds at the Louvre Museum, Paris
Master Hare, 1788

Sir Joshua Reynolds in the Louvre Museum Database, Paris (only available in French)

Sir Joshua Reynolds at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City  
Various works online (click "European Paintings")

Sir Joshua Reynolds at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City  
Study of a Woman and Child, black chalk drawing

Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minnesota  
2 works online

Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas  
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Museum of Fine Arts, Boston  
Paintings collection online

National Galleries of Scotland, Edinburgh
3 works online

Sir Joshua Reynolds at the National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C.
9 works by Sir Joshua Reynolds

National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, Ontario
Colonel Charles Churchill
Sir Jeffrey Amherst, K.B.


National Gallery, London, UK   NEW!

Neue Pinakothek, Munich, Germany

Royal Academy of Arts Collection, London, UK

The Royal Collection, London, UK
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Accademia Carrara, Bergamo, Italy (in Italian)   NEW!  
Ritratto di Rebecca Watson
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Art Fund for UK Museums

Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
2 paintings online

Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto - Provenance Research
George Townshend, 4th Viscount Townshend, ca.1779-84

Ashmolean Museum at the University of Oxford, UK

Beaverbrook Art Gallery, New Brunswick

Bowes Museum, County Durham, UK
Portrait of a Lady

Brigham Young University Museum of Art, Utah

Bury St. Edmunds Art Gallery, England
Augustus John, 3rd Earl of Bristol, 1762

Chi-Mei Museum, Taiwan (in Chinese)  
Juno Receiving the Cestus from Venus

Christchurch Art Gallery / Te Puna O Waiwhetu, New Zealand   NEW!
Vice Admiral Robert Duff died 1787

Cincinnati Art Museum, Ohio
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Portrait of Richard Peers Symons, M.P.

Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio
The Ladies Amabel and Mary Jemima Yorke

Columbia Museum of Art, South Carolina
Mrs. Elizabeth Palmer as Bacchante

Compton Verney, Warwick, England
A Portrait of Mrs Baldwin, 1782

Courtauld Institute of Art, London, UK
3 works by or related to the artist

Dayton Art Institute, Ohio
Henry, Eighth Lord Arundell Of Wardour

Dayton Art Institute, Ohio
Henry, Eighth Lord Arundell of Wardour, ca.1764-67

Denver Art Museum / Berger Collection, Colorado

Dulwich Picture Gallery, London, UK
6 paintings by Joshua Reynolds, mixed in with several by followers and copiers

Dunedin Public Art Gallery, New Zealand
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Finnish National Gallery Art Collections, Helsinki, Finland   NEW!

Finnish National Gallery, Helsinki, Finland

Flemish Art Collection Database (in Dutch)  

Frick Collection, New York City
4 works online

Gilcrease Museum, Tulsa, Oklahoma
Scyacust Ukah

Harvard University Art Museums, Massachusetts

Hunterian Museum and Art Gallery, University of Glasgow, Scotland

Joconde Database of French Museum Collections (in French)  

Joslyn Art Museum, Nebraska
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Kimbell Art Museum, Fort Worth, Texas
Portrait of a Woman, Possibly Elizabeth Warren
Miss Anna Ward with Her Dog


Lady Lever Art Gallery, Port Sunlight, UK
Mrs. Peter Beckford, 1782

Sir Joshua Reynolds in the Los Angeles County Museum of Art Database

Manchester City Art Gallery, UK

Memorial Art Gallery of the University of Rochester, New York
Portrait of Miss Hoare
Portrait of the Artist


Musée des Beaux-Arts de Bordeaux, France (in French)  

Museo d'Arte della Città di Ravenna, Italy
Prince William Frederick (Scroll down to the bottom of the page)

Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Buenos Aires, Argentina (in Spanish)  

Museum of London, UK
Portrait of the Artist, 1780

National Gallery of Victoria, Australia

National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, UK

National Museums and Galleries of Wales

National Museums Liverpool, UK
Overview page with 4 works online

National Portrait Gallery, London, UK

New Art Gallery, Walsall, England
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Norton Museum of Art, West Palm Beach, Florida
Jane, Duchess of Gordon, 1775/78

Palazzo dei Diamanti, Ferrara, Italy (in Italian)  
Mini-site for a 2005 exhibition. Click "La Mostra" to see 3 pages of artworks.

Philadelphia Museum of Art
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2 works by Sir Joshua Reynolds online

Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane, Australia
Aneas Mackay of Ravenhead House

Ringling Museum of Art, Florida
John Manners, Marquis of Granby, 1766

Sir Joshua Reynolds at the Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington D.C.

Southampton City Gallery, England

State Museums of Florence Digital Archive, Italy

Studio Esseci, Italy (in Italian)  
Click "Immagini" to see a large image from a 2005 exhibition

Tate Gallery, London, UK

The Faringdon Collection at Buscot Park, Oxfordshire, UK
3 works online

The Huntington Library, California
Sarah Siddons as the Tragic Muse, 1784

The Wallace Collection, London, UK
12 paintings online

Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum, Madrid   NEW!
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Victoria and Albert Museum Catalogue, London, UK

Virtual Museum of Canada

Wallraf-Richartz-Museum, Cologne, Germany (mostly in German)  

 
Commercial Galleries:
Ben Elwes Fine Art, London, UK -- Notable past sales
A Nymph and Cupid

Dickinson Agents and Dealers in Fine Art, London, UK -- Notable past sales

Peter Nahum At The Leicester Galleries, London, UK
Archive of past displayed works which are "sold" or "not for sale"

 
Pictures from Image Archives:
Art Renewal Center

Artcyclopedia
Masterscan feature: The Infant Jupiter

Artcyclopedia
Masterscan feature: Miss Elizabeth Johnson

CGFA  

Web Gallery of Art  

Wikimedia Commons Image Database  

World Visit Guide (formerly Insecula)

Artyzm

Bildindex der Kunst und Architektur (in German)  
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Ciudad de la Pintura (in Spanish)  

El Poder de la Palabra (The Power of the Word) (in Spanish)  

Humanities Web  

ImageNETion

PBase Photo Sharing
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The Athenaeum  
54 works online by Reynolds

 
Other Web Sites:
Shakespeare Illustrated

Tennessee Portrait Project   NEW!
Portrait of a Lady, "attributed to" Joshua Reynolds

The Fine Arts Conservancy, Florida
Interesting before-and-after examples of artwork restorations
Untitled

The Modernist Journals Project

UK Government Art Collection

University of Wisconsin - Madison
Portrait of Omai (scroll down towards the bottom of the page)

 
Articles:
Encyclopedia Britannica complete article on Sir Joshua Reynolds
Note: The full version of the article is available only if you follow this link. If you bookmark the article and return later, or if you navigate directly to the Britannica website, you will see a 75-word preview only. Troubleshooting

Union List of Artist Names (Getty Museum)
Reference sheet with basic information about the artist and pointers to other references.

Wikipedia, the "Open Content" Encyclopedia

Project Gutenberg
Full text of Reynolds' treatise, Seven Discourses on Art

Spartacus Educational Books

The Guardian Newspaper, UK
Nelly O'Brien, ca.1763

The Guardian Newspaper, UK
Three Ladies Adorning a Term of Hymen, 1773

Time Magazine
"Mixing Grandeur and Tattiness", 1986 article by Robert Hughes

Wikiquote, compendium of quotations from the Wikimedia Foundation

  
 
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Sir Joshua Reynolds: Portrait of Francis George Hare
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Sir Joshua Reynolds: Dorothy Vaughan, Countess of Lisburne
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