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Sir Joshua Reynolds

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  • Allegations by James, 46, an Old Etonian who has barely exchanged words with his father since storming out of the family home following a Christmas Day row in 1984, and his sisters Annabella and Laura, is that "chattels" including a painting by Sir Joshua Reynolds called The Calling of Samuel have gone missing and were misappropriated by their father.

    Palumbo children accuse father of extravagance as family feud resumes Mark Hollingsworth 2010

  • Paintings by Sir Joshua Reynolds, J.M.W. Turner, Pieter Bruegel the Younger, Frederic Remington, among others and their frames were similarly treated, then sent to art storage facilities in Philadelphia.

    A Well-Maintained 100-Year-Old 2010

  • Jan Steen, whose name is a byword among the Dutch for households in uproar, puts in a decorous appearance with the mythological "Sacrifice of Iphigenia," once in the collection of Sir Joshua Reynolds.

    A Lost Legacy Belatedly Restored 2008

  • By 1793 she was living with Frances Reynolds, sister of Sir Joshua Reynolds.

    Charlotte (Ramsay) Lennox (c.1729-1804) 2008

  • Her complexion was that seen in the numerous faded portraits by Sir Joshua Reynolds; it was pallid in comparison with life, but there was visible on a close inspection the remnant of what had once been a flush; the keeping between the cheeks and the hollows of the face being thus preserved, although positive colour was gone.

    Wessex Tales 2006

  • I think Nick had some kind of mad plan to use a time machine to break the fingers of Sir Joshua Reynolds at age 25; details were sketchy - I wish him the best of luck in his evil scheme.

    Archive 2006-05-01 Greg Tannahill 2006

  • This room is ornamented with a number of fine prints, and with a whole length picture of Lord Errol, by Sir Joshua Reynolds.

    Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides 2006

  • I think Nick had some kind of mad plan to use a time machine to break the fingers of Sir Joshua Reynolds at age 25; details were sketchy - I wish him the best of luck in his evil scheme.

    Back From Sydney / Archibald Prize Greg Tannahill 2006

  • His recitation was grand and affecting, and, as Sir Joshua Reynolds has observed to me, had no more tone than it should have: it was the better for it.

    Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides 2006

  • When Hal was in England, we sent her pictures of both her sons, painted by the admirable Sir Joshua Reynolds.

    The Virginians 2006

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