Joshua Reynolds

Sir Joshua Reynolds RA FRS FRSA (16. jul 1723 – 23. februar 1792) bio je uticajni engleski slikar iz 18. vijeka, specijaliziran za portrete i poznat po promoviranju tzv. "Velikog stila" slikanmja koji je nastojao idealizirati nesavršeno. Bio je jedan od osnivača i prvi predsjednik Kraljevske akademije. Kralj George III mu je u znak priznanja za zasluge godine 1769. dao plemićku titulu.

Sir Joshua Reynolds
Biografske informacije
RođenjeJoshua Reynolds
(1723-07-16)16. 7. 1723.
Plympton
Smrt23. 2. 1792. (dob: 68)
London
Nacionalnostengleska

Literatura

uredi
  • James Boswell, Life of Johnson (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008).
  • Ian McIntyre, Joshua Reynolds. The Life and Times of the First President of the Royal Academy (London: Allen Lane, 2003).
  • Martin Postle, ‘Reynolds, Sir Joshua (1723–1792)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, Oct 2009. Retrieved 24 Sep 2010.
  • John Barrell, The Political Theory of Painting from Reynolds to Hazlitt (1986).
  • A. Graves and W. V. Cronin, A History of the Works of Sir Joshua Reynolds (1899–1901, 4 volumes).
  • F. W. Hilles, The Literary Career of Sir Joshua Reynolds (1936).
  • Derek Hudson, Sir Joshua Reynolds: A Personal Study (1958).
  • J. Ingamells and J. Edgcumbe (eds.), The Letters of Sir Joshua Reynolds (2000).
  • C. R. Leslie and T. Taylor, Life and Times of Sir Joshua Reynolds (1865, 2 volumes).
  • E. Malone (ed.), The Works of Sir Joshua Reynolds (1798, 3 volumes).
  • D. Mannings, Sir Joshua Reynolds PRA, 1723–92 (1992).
  • J. Northcote, Memoirs of Sir Joshua Reynolds, knt. (1813–15).
  • J. Northcote, The Life of Sir Joshua Reynolds (1818, 2nd edition, 2 volumes).
  • Martin Postle, Joshua Reynolds: The Creation of Celebrity (Tate, 2005). ISBN 1-85437-564-4
  • Martin Postle, Sir Joshua Reynolds: The Subject Pictures (1995).
  • Martin Postle, Drawings of Joshua Reynolds.
  • R. Prochno, Joshua Reynolds (1990).
  • E. K. Waterhouse, Reynolds (1941).
  • E. K. Waterhouse, Reynolds (1973).

Vanjske veze

uredi
Slike
Bibliografija
Dvorske službe
Prethodi:
Allan Ramsay
Glavni slikar kralj
1784–1792
Slijedi:
Thomas Lawrence
Službe u kulturi
Nova titula Predsjednik Kraljevske akademije
1768–1792
Slijedi:
Benjamin West