List of Illustrations A,B,C,D,E,F,G,H,J,K,L,M,N,P,R,S,T,V,W (etext transcriber's note) |
REYNOLDS
UNIFORM WITH THIS VOLUME |
ROMNEY |
Containing sixteen examples of the master’s work |
VELASQUEZ |
Containing sixteen examples of the master’s work |
A. and C. Black, 4 Soho Square, London, W. |
BY
RANDALL DAVIES
CONTAINING SIXTEEN EXAMPLES IN COLOUR
OF THE MASTER’S WORK
LONDON
ADAM AND CHARLES BLACK
1913
PRINTED AT
THE BALLANTYNE PRESS
LONDON
The chief authorities on the life and work of Reynolds are JamesNorthcote, R.A., his most successful pupil; Henry William Beechey, andC. R. Leslie, R.A., each of whom produced a two-volume work on thesubject. The first of these appeared in 1819, seventeen years after SirJoshua’s death; the next in 1835, and the last, edited by Tom Taylor, in1865.
Besides these capital works there are memoirs by Joseph Farington, R.A.,by Edmund Malone, by William Cotton, by William Mason, and by AllanCunningham in his “Lives of the British Painters,” all of which appearedin the earlier half of the l