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Sir Joshua Reynolds PRA (1723-1792)

Angelica Kauffman RA (Chur 1741 – Rome 1807)

Category

Art / Oil paintings

Date

1767 (signed and dated)

Materials

Oil on canvas

Measurements

1270 x 1016 mm (50 x 40 in)

Place of origin

England

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Collection

Saltram, Devon

NT 872180

Caption

In this portrait of her great friend, Angelica Kauffman presents Sir Joshua Reynolds as a man of style and culture. He wears Van Dyck costume which was fashionable during the reign of George III. He sits beside a table strewn with papers and philosophical volumes, behind which is a bust of Michelangelo, an artist revered by Reynolds.

Summary

Oil painting on canvas, Sir Joshua Reynolds PRA (1723-1792) by Angelica Kauffman RA (Chur 1741 – Rome 1807), signed and dated, middle right: Angelica Kauffmann Pinx: / 176[7?]. He is seated three-quarter length facing, his head resting on his right hand. He is wearing 17th-century 'Van Dyck' dress. Books, with whom all three authors Reynolds was friends - Johnson's periodical The Idler, Burke's Sublime and the Beautiful and Goldsmith's The Traveller (1764) - are on a table on the left next to an engraving of an ancient sculpture. A bust of Michelangelo by Daniele da Volterra which Reynolds painted in his Self-Portrait of 1780 (Royal Academy, London) is behind.

Provenance

Accepted by HM Treasury in part payment of death-duties from the executors of Edmund Robert Parker, 4th Earl of Morley (1877-1951) and transferred to the National Trust in 1956.

Marks and inscriptions

Recto: Signed and dated, top right: Angelica Kauffmann Pinx: / 176[7?] Recto: Inscribed, top left: Sr J.Reynolds - in gold paint

Makers and roles

Angelica Kauffman RA (Chur 1741 – Rome 1807), artist

Exhibition history

Angelica Kauffman Artist, Superwoman, Influencer, Stifftung Museum Kunstpalast, Düsseldorf, 2020 - 2024 Angelica Kauffman Artist, Superwoman, Influencer, Royal Academy of Arts, London, 2020 - 2024

References

Rosenthal 2006: Angela Rosenthal, Angelica Kauffman, art and sensibility, New Haven and London 2006, pp. 71-121, fig. 46 Baumgärtel 2020: Bettina Baumgärtel (ed.), Verrückt nach Angelika Kauffmann, exh.cat., Kunstpalast, Düsseldorf and Royal Academy of Arts, London (German and English), 2020, pp. 96-7, cat. 29. Angelica Kauffman, exh.cat., Royal Academy of Arts, London, 1 March - 30 June 2024, pp. 24, 71, 111, cat.no. 16.

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