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Eighteenth-Century Life (2016) 40 (1): 32–58.
Published: 01 January 2016
...Bradford Mudge Sir Joshua's Kitty Fisher as Cleopatra is a celebrated picture, one often taken as a representative of what are referred to as Reynolds's “courtesan portraits,” portraits of women—actresses, mistresses, models, prostitutes—who, in a variety of ways and with varying degrees...
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Published: 01 January 2023
Figure 5. Joshua Reynolds, Nelly O'Brien (ca. 1762), oil on canvas, 125.1 cm × 100.1 cm, Hunterian Art Gallery, University of Glasgow, GLAHA: 43826. Courtesy Hunterian Art Gallery.
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2019) 43 (3): 115–119.
Published: 01 September 2019
... of Reynolds and Siddons (University Park: Pennsylvania State Univ., 2017). Pp. xvi + 272. 93 ills. $89.95 The cult of celebrity is a defining feature of our times: the media that create, support, and sometimes destroy celebrity figures have become so powerful and all- encompassing that today, one can...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2014) 38 (1): 93–101.
Published: 01 January 2014
... month. Barchas had been
working with a team of programmers and student research assistants at the
University of Texas to create an interactive “walk-through” website that
reproduces the experience of visiting a three-room exhibition of 141 paint-
ings by Sir Joshua Reynolds, an exhibit...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2011) 35 (3): 29–59.
Published: 01 September 2011
... anecdotes of late eighteenth-century London life even as they lament
his disorganization and unreliability.3 Rarely, however, do they notice that
his narrative is not merely partial to artists — including, among others,
Gainsborough, Reynolds, Gillray, and Rowlandson — but that it is, in its
own...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2023) 47 (1): 1–34.
Published: 01 January 2023
...Figure 5. Joshua Reynolds, Nelly O'Brien (ca. 1762), oil on canvas, 125.1 cm × 100.1 cm, Hunterian Art Gallery, University of Glasgow, GLAHA: 43826. Courtesy Hunterian Art Gallery. ...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2020) 44 (2): 111–135.
Published: 01 April 2020
... a mezzotint of Sir Joshua Reynolds s portrait of Walpole, a classical device to supplement writing with a gesture that points to the presence of the author. Yet the name and location of the publisher in this case contradicts the title and questions the integrity of the volume as a record of Strawberry Hill...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2008) 32 (1): 23–56.
Published: 01 January 2008
... are consistent
with practices followed in the fine arts. Joshua Reynolds’s lectures at the
Royal Academy reminded painters that they should endeavor to improve
what they appropriate from ancient art in their “own stile,” so that “instead
of copying the touches of those great masters” the artist copies...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2016) 40 (3): 103–107.
Published: 01 September 2016
..., and
Croker.” In “Blinking Sam, ‘Surly Sam,’ and ‘Johnson’s Grimly Ghost Folken-
flik examines Joshua Reynolds’s so-called “Blinking Sam” portrait of Johnson,
now in the Huntington Library, which he places in the context of other John-
son portraits. Folkenflik carefully reviews biographical comments...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2012) 36 (3): 106–111.
Published: 01 September 2012
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appropriates the language of the picturesque, but only in order to install within
this discourse an opportunity for reflection. Similarly, although Reynolds’s
aesthetic theory appeals to a standard of nature reminiscent of the pictur-
esque, nature for him is not some independently existing entity...
Journal Article
Eighteenth-Century Life (2015) 39 (3): 1–32.
Published: 01 September 2015
... of pictorial dialogue between individual paintings and the mass
of other works that surrounded them on the walls.”9 Focusing on Joshua
Reynolds’s 1783–84 portrait of the Prince of Wales—HRH George, Prince
of Wales—and on verbal descriptions in the press of the prince’s appear-
ance and behavior, Hallett...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2001) 25 (1): 126–130.
Published: 01 January 2001
...-63166-1
Ingamells, John, and John Edgcumbe, eds. The Letters of Sir Joshua Reynolds (New
Haven & London: Yale Univ. for the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British
Art, 2000). Pp. xxix + 290. $40. ISBN 0-300-08733-0
Jacob, Margaret C. The Enlightenment...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2012) 36 (1): 54–81.
Published: 01 January 2012
..., such as Joshua Reynolds, could charge up to two
hundred guineas for a full-length — but their viewership was not limited to
society’s elite. 8 The “growth of theatrical portrait production in the second
half of the century coincided with the proliferation of public art exhibi-
tions,” Shearer West notes...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2002) 26 (1): 119–135.
Published: 01 January 2002
... of their husbands’ regiments, and with their dis-
tinguishing accoutrements. Sir Joshua Reynolds’s portrait of Lady Worsley
(ca. 1776, Harewood House) (figure 21) shows her in such an adaptation,
with red jacket, gold lace epaulets, buttoned cuffs, black revers, and ostrich...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2013) 37 (3): 55–84.
Published: 01 September 2013
... — to bless.34
With its depiction of Garrick being torn between rival muses, the poem
clearly invokes the famous imagery of Reynolds’s Garrick between Tragedy
and Comedy. Yet here, the action is transposed to a union among Garrick
and the cherubs Charity and Benevolence, signifying the actor’s...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2018) 42 (2): 56–72.
Published: 01 April 2018
... near Tahiti.
He traveled to Britain, staying for two years as the guest of Banks and the
Earl of Sandwich, and becoming, in Frances’s words, “the present Lyon of
the Times,” whose famous portrait by Joshua Reynolds would be exhib -
ited at the Royal Academy in journal, EJL, 11 “Every cir...
Journal Article
Eighteenth-Century Life (2005) 29 (3): 20–43.
Published: 01 September 2005
... Reynolds, then sixteen, recalls an
argument between his brother and his father. The latter, a liberal lawyer
who had acted for Wilkes, did not understand what Reynolds calls “mob
tyranny,” and fearing the spread of the riots, said that “if this rabble con-
tinued to rule, he would, in a day or two...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2020) 44 (2): 1–16.
Published: 01 April 2020
... Reynolds s funeral.13 Like the ticket for Garrick s interment, that for Reynolds was specially designed for the occasion and not subsequently reused. Edward Burney was responsible for the design, which was executed by Francesco Bartolozzi, and which echoed some of the elements of the Garrick ticket...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2011) 35 (1): 216–220.
Published: 01 January 2011
... to the critical litera-
ture is sound, and his readings are often compelling. His mode of reading
images is strongly influenced by Erwin Panofsky’s iconology, and he focuses
on major painters, particularly William Hogarth, George Romney, Sir Joshua
Reynolds, William Blake, and Henry Fuseli, who, alone...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2008) 32 (2): 14–28.
Published: 01 April 2008
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refers to Jefferson and Franklin and Washington; to Hogarth’s Rake’s Prog-
ress (1735); to Sir Joshua Reynolds; to Scott, and even to Jane Porter’s 1810
novel The Scottish Chiefs; to James Thomson’s “Autumn” (1730); to Sheri-
dan’s School for Scandal (1777); to the Ladies of Llangollen; to Defoe...
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