Artist: Sir Joshua Reynolds (English, 1793-1792)
Medium: Antique hand pulled copper plate etching on wove paper after the original oil paint on canvas by master etcher Adolphe Lalauze (French, 1838-1906).
Signature: Signed in the plate
Dimensions: Image Size 5 1/4 x 6 inches.
Framed Dimensions: Approximately 13 x 14 inches..
Framing: This piece has been professionally matted and framed using all new materials.
A young girl sitting on a bank with a robin perched on her right shoulder, facing the front with her right hand to the bird’s beak; trees behind.
Sir Joshua Reynolds was an English portrait painter and aesthetician who dominated English artistic life in the middle and late 18th century. Through his art and teaching, he attempted to lead British painting away from the indigenous anecdotal pictures of the early 18th century toward the formal rhetoric of the continental Grand Style. With the founding of the Royal Academy in 1768, Reynolds was elected its first president and knighted by King George III.