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Reynolds

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Reyn·olds  (rnldz), Sir Joshua 1723-1792.
British portrait painter and critic considered one of the most important figures in the history of English painting.
Reynolds [ˈrɛnəldz]
n
1. (Biographies / Reynolds, Albert (1935 M, Irish, POLITICS: politician, POLITICS: prime minister) Albert. born 1935, Irish politician: leader of the Fianna Fáil party and prime minister of the Republic of Ireland (1994-96)
2. (Biographies / Reynolds, Sir Joshua (1723-1792) M, English, ARTS AND CRAFTS: painter) Sir Joshua. 1723-92, English portrait painter. He was the first president of the Royal Academy (1768): the annual lectures he gave there, published as Discourses, are important contributions to art theory and criticism
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Noun1.ReynoldsReynolds - English portrait painter and first president of the Royal Academy (1723-1792)
Sir Joshua Reynolds


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Reynolds replied that he was, adding, "But we expect him to-morrow, with a large party of friends.
Pride and Prejudice by Austen, Jane View in context
Pierre to Chateaubriand, from Chateaubriand to Victor Hugo; it has no doubt some obscure relationship to those pantheistic theories which have greatly occupied people's minds in many modern readings of philosophy; it makes as much difference between the modern and the earlier landscape art as there is between the roughly outlined masks of a Byzantine mosaic and a portrait by Reynolds or Romney.
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Archer had been born a Newland, and mother and daughter, who were as like as sisters, were both, as people said, "true Newlands"; tall, pale, and slightly round-shouldered, with long noses, sweet smiles and a kind of drooping distinction like that in certain faded Reynolds portraits.
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