Joshua Reynoldsin a sentence
- The Collected Portraits of Sir Joshua Reynolds.† (source)
- The reigning artists were the rivals Thomas Gainsborough and Joshua Reynolds and the American Ben-jamin West, who did elegant portraits and historical scenes, rather than graphic renditions of the dark side of London life.† (source)
- This is not only an act of justice, but in our decisions upon poetry especially, may conduce in a high degree to the improvement of our own taste: for an accurate taste in poetry, and in all the other arts, as Sir Joshua Reynolds has observed, is an acquired talent, which can only be produced by thought and a long continued intercourse with the best models of composition.† (source)