19th Century

thomas hosmer shepherd

Born 1792 Died 1864

Sir Joshua Reynolds: The Grand Manner and the Dawn of British Portraiture Sir Joshua Reynolds (16 July 1723 – 23 February 1792) stands as a monumental figure in the history of British art, not merely for his prolific output but for fundamentally reshaping the landscape of portrait painting. Born into a cultured family—his father was a headmaster and fellow of Balliol College, Oxford—Reynolds’s artistic journey began with an apprenticeship under Thomas Hudson, a respected London painter. However, it was his sojourn in Italy between 1749 and 1752 that proved transformative, exposing him to the…

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thomas hosmer shepherd

1792 - 1864

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