Sir Joshua Reynolds' Discourses. Sir Joshua Reynolds

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       INTRODUCTION.

       TO THE KING.

       TO THE MEMBERS

       OF

       THE ROYAL ACADEMY.

       DISCOURSES.

       SIR JOSHUA REYNOLDS' DISCOURSES.

       DISCOURSE I.

       DISCOURSE II.

       DISCOURSE III.

       DISCOURSE IV.

       DISCOURSE V.

       DISCOURSE VI.

       DISCOURSE VII.

       DISCOURSE VIII.

       DISCOURSE IX.

       DISCOURSE X.

       DISCOURSE XI.

       DISCOURSE XII.

       DISCOURSE XIII.

       DISCOURSE XIV.

       DISCOURSE XV.

       THREE LETTERS

       TO

       THE IDLER.

       THE IDLER.

       Number 76. Saturday, September 29, 1759.

       TO THE IDLER.

       Number 79. Saturday, October 20, 1759.

       TO THE IDLER.

       Number 82. Saturday, November 10, 1759.

       TO THE IDLER.

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      Sir Joshua Reynolds—to whom is the name unfamiliar? to whom, hearing it, does not appear in mental vision the equally familiar autograph portrait of the deaf artist? This picture, painted originally for Mr. Thrale, shows us the painter "in his habit as he lived," spectacles on nose, ear-trumpet in hand—in short, exactly as he was known to his intimates in his latter days in domestic life. Another autograph picture of the artist in younger life hangs to-day in the National Gallery. Close by is seen the portrait by the same hand of his equally illustrious friend, bluff, common-sense Dr. Johnson, whom he represents as reading and holding his book close to his eyes after the manner of the short-sighted. It would seem that this mode of representation roused Dr. Johnson's СКАЧАТЬ