{"product_id":"joshua-reynolds-102-images","title":"Joshua Reynolds 102 High Resolution Images","description":"\u003cp\u003eSir Joshua Reynolds brought elegance, theatrical colour and a strong sense of character to eighteenth-century portrait painting. His portraits of society figures, actors and children reflect the ‘Grand Manner’ of art he championed as the first president of the Royal Academy.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis download features 102 hi-res images, in jpeg format, by the artist Joshua Reynolds.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe images are all 600dpi and range in size from 3041 pixels wide\/tall to 11180 pixels wide\/tall.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe pictures are out of copyright and in the public domain, so you are free to use them in whatever way you’d like, including commercial use.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSir Joshua Reynolds (1723-1792)\u003c\/strong\u003e was an English painter who specialised in portraits. He was a founder and first president of the Royal Academy of Arts and was knighted by George III in 1769.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eReynolds was born in Plympton, Devon as the third son of the Reverend Samuel Reynolds (1681-1745), master of the Plympton Free Grammar School in the town. His father had been a fellow of Balliol College, Oxford, but did not send any of his sons to the university. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHaving shown an early interest in art, Reynolds was apprenticed in 1740 to the fashionable London portrait painter Thomas Hudson, who like Reynolds had been born in Devon. One of his sisters contributed towards Joshua's pupillage and nine years later advanced money for his expenses for a trip to Italy and the Mediterranean. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHaving left Hudson in 1743, Reynolds worked for some time as a portrait painter in Plymouth Dock (now Devonport). He returned to London before the end of 1744, but following his father's death in late 1745 he shared a house in Plymouth Dock with his sisters.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn 1749, while in Rome, he suffered a severe cold, which left him partially deaf, and, as a result, he began to carry the small ear trumpet with which he is often pictured.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eReynolds travelled homeward overland via Florence, Bologna, Venice, and Paris. He was accompanied by Giuseppe Marchi, then aged about 17. Apart from a brief interlude in 1770, Marchi remained in Reynolds' employment as a studio assistant for the rest of the artist's career. Following his arrival in England in October 1752, Reynolds spent three months in Devon before establishing himself in London the following year and remaining there for the rest of his life.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHe achieved success rapidly and was extremely prolific. In 1760, Reynolds moved into a large house, with space to show his works and accommodate his assistants, on the west side of Leicester Fields (now Leicester Square).\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe clothing of Reynolds' sitters was usually painted by either one of his pupils, his studio assistant Giuseppe Marchi, or the specialist drapery painter Peter Toms. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAlthough not known principally for his landscapes, Reynolds did paint in this genre. He had an excellent vantage from his house, Wick House, on Richmond Hill, and painted the view in about 1780.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eReynolds also was recognised for his portraits of children. He emphasised the innocence and natural grace of children when depicting them. His 1788 portrait, '\u003cstrong\u003eAge of Innocence'\u003c\/strong\u003e, is his best-known character study of a child. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eReynolds worked long hours in his studio, rarely taking a holiday. He was gregarious and keenly intellectual, with many friends from London's intelligentsia, numbered among whom were Dr Samuel Johnson, Oliver Goldsmith, Edmund Burke, Giuseppe Baretti, Henry Thrale, David Garrick, and artist Angelica Kauffman, exchanging his portrait of her for a portrait of him by Kauffman. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn 1789, Reynolds lost the sight of his left eye, which forced him into retirement. He died on 23 February 1792 at his house at 47 Leicester Fields and was buried at St Paul's Cathedral. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFind out more about Joshua Reynolds and browse individual artworks in our \u003ca href=\"\/collections\/reynolds-joshua\" style=\"text-decoration: none !important;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"text-decoration: underline; text-underline-offset: 2px;\"\u003eJoshua Reynolds biography\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Digital Download - 102 images","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49877176353098,"sku":"","price":5.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0776\/7965\/7290\/files\/JoshuaReynolds102HighResolutionImages.jpg?v=1747039220","url":"https:\/\/www.publicdomainimagelibrary.com\/products\/joshua-reynolds-102-images","provider":"Public Domain Image Library","version":"1.0","type":"link"}