Reynolds, Joshua, Sir, 1723-1792, Johnson, Edward Gilpin · Chicago : A. C. McClurg and company · leaf 51
finally and decisively turned when Rey-nolds exhibited his portrait of Commodore Keppel, — a workof such truth and spirit, combined with richness of color andpicturesque general effect, as to silence disparagement. Al-luding to this portrait Malone has observed : The wholeinterval between the time… … Sir W. Hamilton, INTRO D UCTION, 3 3 painter or Van Dyck were the more excellent. Reynoldsspeedily became the vogue, and his studio was thronged,says Northcote, with women who wished to be transmittedas angels, and men who wished to appear as heroes andphilosophers.* From this time forward…
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