[스크랩] Sir Joshua Reynolds 1723 - 1792 / British Romanticism

Sir Joshua Reynolds RA FRS FRSA  was the most important and influential of 18th century

English painters, 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. George III appreciated his merits and knighted him in 1769. 

 

 

 

Self portrait 1747-49

 

 

Showing an early interest in Art, Reynolds apprenticed in 1740 to the fashionable portrait painter

Thomas Hudson, with whom he remained until 1743. 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". From 1753

until the rest of his life he lived in London, his talents gaining recognition soon after his arrival.

 

 

James FitzGerald, Duke of Leinster. 1753

 

 

  

 

Portrait of Suzanna Beckford, 1756

 

 

 

 

Portrait of Miss Mary Pelham, c. 1757, Dallas Museum of Art

 

  

 

 

Garrick between Tragedy and Comedy, approx. 1761

 

 

 

 

George Clive and his Family with an Indian Maid, 1765

 

 

Professionally, Reynolds' career never peaked. He was one of the earliest members of the

Royal Society of Arts, and with Gainsborough established the Royal Academy of Arts as a

spin-off organisation. In 1768 he was made the RA's first President, a position he held until

his death.

  

               

 

                Colonel Acland and Lord Sydney, The Archers, 1769               

                In September 2005, the Tate Gallery acquired the painting for over

                UK£2.5 million (US$4.4 million).

 

 

 

 

Lady Delm and her children, 1777-1780, National Gallery of Washington

 

 

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.  

 

 

Portrait Of Mrs. Siddons As The Tragic Muse

 

 

Reynolds and the Royal Academy have historically received a mixed reception. Critics

include many of the Pre-Raphaelites, and William Blake, the latter having published his

vitriolic Annotations to Sir Joshua Reynolds' Discourses in 1808. To the contrary, both

J. M. W. Turner and James Northcote were fervent acolytes: Turner requested he be

laid to rest at Reynolds' side, and Northcote (who lived for four years as Reynolds' pupil)

wrote to his family "I know him thoroughly, and all his faults, I am sure, and yet almost

worship him." The word worship is second cast; originally Northcote had written adore.

 

 

 

Mozart - Quartet for Flute No.4 in A major, K.298

1악장 (Theme & variations: Andante)
Judith Hall, Flute / Paul Barritt, Violin
Josephine Horder, Cello / Gustav Clarkson, Viola

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