The Life of Sir Joshua Reynolds, Ll.D., F.R.S., F.S.A., etc., Late President of the Royal Academy: Volume 2
Comprising Original Anecdotes of Many Distinguished Persons, his Contemporaries, and a Brief Analysis of his Discourses

The revised and augmented 1818 second edition of James Northcote's two-volume life of the great artist Sir Joshua Reynolds.

James Northcote (Author)

9781108069076, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 20 March 2014

378 pages, 3 b/w illus.
21.6 x 14 x 2.1 cm, 0.48 kg

A fellow Devonian, James Northcote (1746–1831) was an admirer and pupil of Sir Joshua Reynolds, whose two-volume biography he published in 1813–15. Reissued here is the 'revised and augmented' second edition of 1818. Northcote is self-deprecating as to his fitness for the task, but claims that a worthy biography of a great artist can be written only by another artist, and his close personal knowledge of his subject and the circle in which Reynolds moved gives him insights, as well as providing anecdotes, which would not be available to a more 'professional' author. Volume 2 covers the remainder of Reynolds' life, including a description of his elaborate funeral and various assessments of his work, as well as details of the sale of his paintings, and a short account of the life of William Gandy, an obscure seventeenth-century painter whom Reynolds greatly admired.

The life (cont.)
Appendix
List of paintings
General index.

Subject Areas: The arts: general issues [AB]