Sir Joshua Reynolds
Sir Joshua Reynolds

Author: Richard Wendorf

Publisher: Harvard University Press

Published: 1998

Total Pages: 321

ISBN-13: 067480967X

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Sir Joshua Reynolds explores the ways in which portrait-painting is embedded in the social fabric of a given culture as well as in the social and professional transaction between the artist and his or her subject. In addition to providing a new view of Reynolds, Wendorf's book develops a thoroughly new way of interpreting portraiture.

Joshua Reynolds
Joshua Reynolds

Author: Ian McIntyre

Publisher: Allan Lane

Published: 2003

Total Pages: 648

ISBN-13:

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Here, Ian McIntyre traces Joshua Reynolds' journey from his humble origins as the seventh child of the Reverend Samuel Reynolds in Devon to the splendour and pomp of his funeral at St Paul's Cathedral in 1792. He examines in detail all aspects of his artistic and personal life, including his experimental history and fancy paintings, as well as his better-known work as a portrait painter. McIntyre also explains Reynolds' thinking about art history in the context of his life in 18th-century England. Reynolds was a central figure in the development of British art, and in this biography McIntyre explores fully the nature and extent of his contribution.