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Portrait of Sir Joshua Reynolds, PRA 1723-1792#1805338

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Portrait of Sir Joshua Reynolds, PRA  1723-1792#1805338
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Portrait of Sir Joshua Reynolds, PRA after the original self portrait, in the Royal Academy of Arts by Charles Robert Leslie, RA (1794-1859) </em></td>
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Charles Robert Leslie's portrait of Reynolds is proof of the high regard he had for Reynolds. Leslie was one of the new students at the Royal Academy and he would have without doubt seen Reynolds self portrait at the Royal Academy.

Reynolds Painted his self portrait in Circa 1780. This portrait and Reynolds's portrait of William Chambers hung at either side of the chimney in the Royal Academy Assembly Room, Somerset House, the institution that he had helped to found and of which he was the first president. Reynolds wears the robes of a Doctor of Civil Law, a degree conferred upon him by the University of Oxford in 1773. Reynolds pays tribute to his hero Michelangelo, by including a bust of this artist. His debt to Rembrandt is also apparent in the composition and his use of light and shade.

No false modesty there, then - and no nonsense either about psychological insight or self-revelation. Reynolds shows himself exactly as he wished the world to see him, a pillar of the establishment dressed in the velvet cap and crimson robes he had worn when Oxford University conferred on him an honorary degree in 1773. He then indicates his professional status by the presence of a bust of Michelangelo at his side, and, more subtly, by constructing a composition that recalls Rembrandt's famous Aristotle Contemplating a Bust of Homer.

Charles Robert Leslie (1794-1859), English genre painter, was born in London on 19 October 1794. His parents were American, and when he was five years ...
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<tr><td>Condition:Good</td></tr>
<tr><td>Year:19th Century</td></tr>
<tr><td>Country:UK</td></tr>
<tr><td>Maker:Charles Robert Leslie, RA (1794-1859)</td></tr>
<tr><td>Height:10.60</td></tr>

<tr><td>Width:8.60</td></tr>

<tr><td>Title:Portrait of Sir Joshua Reynolds, PRA 1723-1792</td></tr>
<tr><td>Style:Traditional</td></tr>
<tr><td>Materials:Oil on Panel</td></tr>
<tr><td>Type:Oil on Panel</td></tr>
<tr><td>Location:london uk</td></tr>
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