Lieutenant Colonel Alexander Dow
Medium
Etching
Dimensions
Plate: 10 7/16 × 7 1/2 in. (26.5 × 19 cm) Sheet: 13 7/8 × 10 3/16 in. (35.3 × 25.9 cm)
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1917
Accession Number
17.3.756-1533
Tags
About the Artist
Sir Joshua Reynolds|Samuel William Reynolds, the elder|Alexander Dow · 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...