Joshua reynolds

Sir Joshua Reynolds, (born July 16, 1723, Plympton, Devon, England - died February 23, 1792, London), portrait painter and aesthetician who dominated English artistic life in the middle and late 18th century. Through his art and teaching, he attempted to lead British painting away from the indigenous anecdotal pictures of the early 18th century toward the formal rhetoric of the continental Grand Style.

At the National Portrait Gallery in London, you will find the Portrait of Mai (Omai), circa 1753-80, painted by Sir Joshua Reynolds around 1776. Reynolds's depiction of Mai, the first Polynesian to visit Britain, marks the first British painting to portray a person of colour with dignity and grandeur. Known as “Omai” in England, Mai (ca. 1753-1779) was a native of Raiatea, an island now part of French Polynesia, who travelled from Tahiti to England with Captain James Cook. He spent the years…

"Diana Sackville, Viscountess Crosbie" (1777) by Sir Joshua Reynolds

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Lady Sondes by Joshua Reynolds, 1764. Oil painting.

c. 1786 - 1787 Called Lady Mary Bruce, Duchess of Richmond. By Thomas Gainsborough - Ascott House, National Trust Collections, UK.

Needless to say in the 18th century women were regarded as being of lower status than their male counterparts, this was especially noticeable in music. How many well-known female composers of the 1…