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Miss Norcliff, Sir Joshua Reynolds, P.R.A., O/C

Portrait of a Lady, oil on canvas, beautifully framed. Size: 24-1/2" W x 30" H. Provenance: NY based Private Collection. Reynolds (Plympton, Devon 1723 - London 1793) was the foremost portrait painter in eighteenth century England, his works greatly influencing the following generation of painters that included Thomas Lawrence (1769-1830) and Henry Raeburn (1756-1823). He was a proponent of the 'Grand Style' of painting; his poses often inspired by classical sculpture or the Old Masters as he looked to enhance the dignity and classical virtue of his sitters. He received a classical education from his father The Reverend Samuel Reynolds, headmaster of Plympton Grammar School. His father had intended him to become an apothecary; however Reynolds' desire to train as an artist led him, in 1740, to spend four years apprenticed to the fashionable London portrait painter Thomas Hudson (1701-79). He spent 1749 to 1752 in Italy studying the Old Masters and developing his taste for the 'Grand Style'; inspired by the works of Michelangelo, Guilio Romano, Tintoretto and Correggio amongst others.

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