Waters, Clara Erskine Clement, 1834-1916 · Boston, Ticknor and company · leaf 322
dio officially established it December 10, 1708, though he did notthen give it a Royal Charter of Incorporation. The original membersof the Academy numbered thirty-four, and among them was — STORIES OF ART AND ARTISTS. 303 JOSHUA REYNOLDS, who was elected its first President. This painter was… … A PORTRAIT. THE DUCHESS OF DEVONSHIRE. (BY SIR JOSHUA REYNOLDS.) Samuel Reynolds, the father of Joshua, was the rector of a grammarschool at Plympton, in Devonshire ; and in this quaint little hamlet,July 16, 1723, was born Joshua, the seventh of the eleven children ofSamuel Reynolds and his wife…
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