Joshua Reynolds
Sir Joshua Reynolds was an English painter specializing in portraits. John Russell said he was one of the major European painters of the 18th century. He promoted the "Grand Style" in painting, which depended on idealization of the imperfect.
Reynolds was most of all, a portrait painter. Having established a portrait practice in London, in 1749 Joshua Reynolds embarked on a journey to Italy, where during a two-year stay in Rome he studied the artistic canon of the antique, Michelangelo, Raphael, and the great Venetian masters. Upon his return he often cast his sitters in poses from these sources, creating a new historical or grand style based on “the simplicity of the antique air and attitude.” Alongside ambitious full-length portraits, Reynolds painted large numbers of smaller works. He became extremely popular among the wealthy and famous men and women of the day. In the late 1750s, at the height of the social season, he received five or six sitters a day, each for an hour.
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