Lady Dashwood and Her Son
Medium
Oil on paper
Dimensions
Sheet: 9 x 7 1/2 in. (22.9 x 19.1 cm)
Classification
Paintings
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1954
Accession Number
54.573.7
Tags
BoysMothersWomenPortraits
About the Artist
Sir Joshua Reynolds|Charles Howard Hodges · 1723–1792
Sir Joshua Reynolds (1723–1792) was a British painter who became the dominant figure in eighteenth-century British art and the first president of the Royal Academy of Arts. Born in Plympton, Devon, he studied under the portrait painter Thomas Hudson in London, and a transformative visit to Italy (1749–52) — where he studied the Old Masters, particularly the Venetian colorists and Michelangelo — sh...