Miss Beatrix Lister
Medium
oil on canvas
Dimensions
overall: 74.9 x 62.2 cm (29 1/2 x 24 1/2 in.) framed: 92.4 x 79.4 cm (36 3/8 x 31 1/4 in.)
Classification
Painting
Department
CAB
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Gift of Margaret Mellon Hitchcock
Accession Number
1995.3.1
About the Artist
Sir Joshua Reynolds · 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...