Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Sir Joshua Romney and Reynolds Lawrence
Probably there is no artist who has had more biographers than Sir Joshua Reynolds, nor is there any name in the list of England's great painters better known than that of the first President of the Royal Academy. Shortly after his death his pupil Northcote and his friend Malone put forth lives of Reynolds, both of which are extremely valuable as original authorities. They were succeeded by Farrington and Beechey, both artists themselves, but who have in their turn been supplanted by the magnificent work begun by Mr. Leslie and completed by Mr. Tom Taylor. It is to this latter book that all future biographers of Sir Joshua must go for materials. It is a perfect mine of information, and no praise can be too high for the careful and diligent manner in which the authors have collected from all sources information about the great master.
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