MRS. NESBIT WITH A DOVE
Wallace Collection, London
again I would tread in the steps of that great master; to kiss the hem of his garment, to catch the slightest of his perfections would be glory and distinction enough for an ambitious man.
“I feel a self-congratulation in knowing myself capable of such sensations as he intended to excite. I reflect, not without vanity, that these discourses bear testimony of my admiration of that truly divine man, and I should desire that the last words which I should pronounce in this Academy and from this place might be the name of—Michel Angelo.”
INDEX
[A], [B], [C], [D], [E], [F], [G], [H], [J], [K], [L], [M], [N], [P], [R], [S], [T], [V], [W]
“An Argument in behalf of the Science of a Connoisseur,” [8]
Armstrong, Sir Walter, [39]
Bleackley’s, Horace, “Ladies Fair and Frail,” [39]
British Painting in the Eighteenth Century, [2]
Burke, Edmund, [16]
Burney Family, [41]
Catts’, Jacob, Book of Emblems, [6]
Chudleigh, Miss, commissioned to paint, [9]
Dilettanti Society, [35]
Dulwich Gallery, [44]
Elizabeth, Queen, [36]
“English Society of the Eighteenth Century in Contemporary Art,” [10]
Farington, Joseph, R.A., [20]
Fisher, Kitty, [39]
Gainsborough, Thomas, [14], [37], [51]
Hogarth, William, [2], [11], [39]
Portrait of Bishop of Winchester, [29]
Holbein’s Duchess of Milan, [35]
Hoppner, [14]
Hudson, Thomas, [8], [20]
Johnson, Samuel, [17], [41]
Keppel, Captain, invites Reynolds to accompany him to the Mediterranean, [12]
Lawrence, Sir Thomas, [14]
Lucan, Lord, [39]
Malone, Edmund, [16], [21], [47]
Marlborough Group, [11]
Mason’s “Observations on Sir Joshua Reynolds’ Method of Colouring,” [22]
Metastasio, [25]
Michel Angelo, [14], [15], [52]
Morland, George, [16]
Mudge, Rev. Zachariah, [17]
Northcote, James, R.A., [9], [31], [45], [49]
Pictures by Sir Joshua Reynolds
A Gipsy telling Fortunes, [48]
A Holy Family, [48]
Boy in a Turban, [20]
Captain Keppel, [20], [22], [30], [31]
Captain Orme, [28], [30], [31], [32], [33]
Cardinal Beaufort, [48], [51]
Charity, [50]
Continence of Scipio, [48], [51]
Conversation Piece, [10]
Count Hugolino, [48]
Heads of Angels, [52]
Infant Hercules, [33], [48], [49], [51]
Kitty Fisher, [39]
Ladies Sarah Lenox, Susan Strangways, and Charles James Fox, [34]
Ladies Waldegrave, [35]
Lady Caroline Russell, [35]
Lady Elizabeth Keppel, [34], [35], [36]
Lord Heathfield, [32]
Lord Holderness, [22]
Lord Ligonier, [28], [32], [33]
Lords Huntingdon and Stormont, [22]
Macbeth, [48], [51]
Mr. Fane and his Two Guardians, [32]
Mrs. Bonfoy, [36]
Mrs. Molesworth, [37]
Mrs. Siddons as the Tragic Muse, [43]
Muscipula, [33]
Nelly O’Brien, [41]
Pitt (Lord Chatham), [39]
Polly Kennedy, [42]
Puck, [51]
Sleeping Girl, [33]
The Age of Innocence, [52]
The Graces adorning a Term of Hymen, [47]
The Marlborough Family, [47]
The Nativity, [48], [50]
The Strawberry Girl, [52]
Tuccia, the Vestal Virgin, [48]
Plympton, Birthplace of Reynolds, [5]
Reynolds, Sir Joshua, birth of, [5]
drawing of Plympton School, [7]
early efforts, [5]
effects of his studies in Italy, [19]
England’s debt to, [52]
entries in his pocket-book, [28]
introduction to Captain Keppel, [11]
lecturing at the Academy, [14]
letter to Sir Charles Bunbury, [43]
letter to Valentine Green, [46]
memoranda of his efforts in Beechey’s Memoir, [24]
painting The Infant Hercules, [48]
portrait of himself, [9]
President of the Royal Academy, [42]
prices obtained for pictures commissioned, [48]
residence in Italy, [12]
sent to London, [8]
settled at Plymouth, [9]
studied under Thomas Hudson, [8]
success and continued improvement, [25]
three years’ tour, [19]
Leslie and Taylor’s Life of, [16]
Reynolds, Rev. Samuel, [5]
Richardson, Jonathan, [7], [29]
“Essay on the whole Art of Criticism as it relates to Painting,” [8]
“An argument in behalf of the Science of Connoisseur,” [8]
Romney, George, [14], [37], [38]
Shakespeare, Quotation from, [32]
Siddons, Mrs., story of her portrait by Sir Joshua, [44]
Taylor, Tom, [37], [41], [49]
Thornhill, Sir James, [2]
Veronese, Paul, [35]
Walpole, Horace, [8]
West, Benjamin, [15]
Westmorland, Earl of, Collection, [32]
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