Sir Joshua Reynolds / A Collection of Fifteen Pictures and a Portrait of the Painter with Introduction and Interpretation

Transcriber's Note.
The images in this eBook of the sculptures and paintings are from the original book. However many of these paintings have undergone extensive restoration. The restored paintings are presented as modern color images with links.

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COPYRIGHT, 1900, BY HOUGHTON, MIFFLIN & CO.

This selection of pictures from Reynolds's works is intended to show him at his best in the various classes of subjects which he painted. Johnson and Lord Heathfield are among his finest male portraits, Miss Bowles and Master Bunbury are unsurpassed among his pictures of children, and the Strawberry Girl was the painter's own favorite fancy picture. Penelope Boothby and Angels' Heads are popular favorites which could not be omitted from any collection. In Lady Cockburn and Her Children, The Duchess of Devonshire and Her Child, and Pickaback we have typical groups of mothers and children. Mrs. Siddons stands apart as one of his most unique and remarkable productions. The other pictures add as much as possible to the variety of the collection, and show something of the range of Reynolds's art.
ESTELLE M. HURLL.
New Bedford, Mass.
September, 1900.