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Reynolds
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    Reynolds - S. L. (Samuel Levy) Bensusan

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    Title: Reynolds

    Author: S. L. (Samuel Levy) Bensusan

    Release Date: November 27, 2012 [eBook #41497]

    Language: English

    Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1

    ***START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK REYNOLDS***

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    MASTERPIECES

    IN COLOUR

    EDITED BY . .

    T. LEMAN HARE

    REYNOLDS

    1723-1792


    In the Same Series

    Others in Preparation.


    PLATE I.—MRS. HOARE AND CHILD. In the

    Wallace Collection, London. (Frontispiece)

    This picture is perhaps one of Sir Joshua Reynolds’ most beautiful compositions. The flesh painting is very fine and the handling of the dress remarkably free, its delicate colouring being in beautiful harmony with the surroundings. The painter gave us a portrait of the same child when he was a boy; it is now in the collection of Baron Albert de Rothschild. Sir Joshua made for this picture a sketch in oils which hangs in the Gallery at Bridgewater House.


    REYNOLDS

    BY S. L. BENSUSAN

    ILLUSTRATED WITH EIGHT

    REPRODUCTIONS IN COLOUR

    LONDON: T. C. & E. C. JACK

    NEW YORK: FREDERICK A. STOKES CO.


    LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS


    There are certain men born to every generation who approach life with the complete assurance of distinction in any work that they may have chosen for the exercise of their gifts. They are strangers to doubt and uncertainty; they disarm Fortune by claiming freely as a right what she is accustomed to grant grudgingly as a favour—they ride Life’s lists as a knight might ride. One feels

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