Artist: Sir Joshua Reynolds (English, 1723-1792).
Title: Portrait of a Lady (Mrs. Fox)
Medium: Antique Etching on laid paper after the original by master etcher Paul Adolphe Rajon (French, 1843 – 1888).
Dimensions: Image Size 5 3/8 x 6 3/8 inches
Framed Dimensions: Approximately 15 x 16 inches.
Framing: This piece has been professionally matted and framed using all new materials.
Portrait of a lady and child after Reynolds (Mannings 2006); half-length turned to left, head in profile, the child peering over her right shoulder.
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.