Sir Joshua Reynolds
Medium
Mixed method engraving
Dimensions
Plate: 9 15/16 × 6 3/4 in. (25.2 × 17.2 cm) Sheet: 12 3/8 × 8 3/4 in. (31.4 × 22.2 cm)
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Gift of Joseph Verner Reed, 1950
Accession Number
50.576.33
Tags
About the Artist
Sir Joshua Reynolds|John Henry Robinson|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...