REYNOLDS, Sir Joshua - LESLIE, Charles Robert, & Tom Taylor.

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Life and Times of Sir Joshua Reynolds: First edition of the biography of the 18th-century portraitist and first president of the Royal Academy. Life and Times of Sir Joshua Reynolds was begun by Royal Academician Charles Robert Leslie (1794-1859) in reaction to Allan Cunnigham's uncomplimentary biography of the painter in his Lives of the Most Eminent British Painters, Sculptors and Architects (1829-33) and finished by dramatist and journalist Tom Taylor after Leslie's death. This comprehensive set contains illustrations of works by Reynolds himself as well as reproductions of works by other artists who influenced him. In addition, it also includes lists (organized by year and month) of everyone who sat for the artist and accounts of the payments he received for his work.

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