Period Portraits has dated this Georgian Oil Portrait Painting to the 19th Century.
Sir Joshua Reynolds P.R.A (1723 -1792)
Reynolds was the leading English portraitist of the 18th century.
Reynolds was born at Plympton in Devon, the son of a headmaster and fellow of Balliol College, Oxford: a more educated background than that of most painters. He was apprenticed in 1740 to the fashionable London portraitist Thomas Hudson, who also trained Wright of Derby He spent 1749-52 abroad, mainly in Italy, and set up practice in London shortly after his return.
He soon established himself as the leading portrait painter, though he was never popular with George III. He was a key figure in the intellectual life of London, and a friend of Dr Johnson. When the Royal Academy was founded in 1768, Reynolds was elected its first President. Although believing that history painting was the noblest work of the painter, he had little opportunity to practise it, and his greatest works are his portraits.
Archbishop Richard Robinson (1708–1794)
Born into a wealthy family in Rokeby, Yorkshire in 1708, Richard Robinson first came to Ireland in 1751 as Chaplain to the Lord Lieutenant, the King's representative in Ireland. He was made Archbishop of Armagh in 1765.
As an educated and enlightened man, he resolved to use his wealth and power to found and maintain charitable and educational institutions, particularly in Armagh. He employed some of the foremost architects of his day, Thomas Cooley and Francis Johnston, to design buildings and plan his cathedral city.
He had excellent social and political connections, coming into contact with intellectuals such as Dr Johnson and Edmund Burke and therefore with all the issues of the day. Richard Robinson, Lord Archbishop of Armagh, was a rich and influential man who embodied the spirit of his age.
Provenance: The Robertson - Glasgow family collection. Leeds Castle Kent until deaccessioned.
Literature: The Rev. J. Nightingale, The Beauties of England and Wales, vol. XIII - part 1, London 1813, p.456;
1848 Inventory, p. 5; D. Mannings, Sir Joshua Reynolds, London 2000, text vol. pp. 394-95, no. 1534, plate vol. fig. 359
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Canvas: 50” x 40” / 127cm x 102cm
Frame: 56.5” x 48” /144cm x 122cm
Price: £22000
Period Portraits has dated this Georgian Oil Portrait Painting to the 19th Century.
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Portrait of Archbishop Richard Robinson of Armagh - By Sir Joshua Reynolds P.r.a.
