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Joshua Reynolds

1723 - 1792

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Sir Joshua Reynolds (16 July 1723 – 23 February 1792) was an English painter who specialised in portraits. Art critic John Russell called him one of the major European painters of the 18th century while Lucy Peltz says he was "the leading portrait artist of the 18th-century and arguably one of the greatest artists in the history of art." He promoted the "Grand Style" in painting, which depended on idealisation of the imperfect. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Joshua Reynolds has received more than 1,109,756 page views. His biography is available in 59 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 58 in 2019). Joshua Reynolds is the 226th most popular painter (down from 217th in 2019), the 464th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 463rd in 2019) and the 6th most popular British Painter.

Joshua Reynolds is most famous for his portraits of the English aristocracy.

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Among PAINTERS

Among painters, Joshua Reynolds ranks 226 out of 2,023. Before him are Saskia van Uylenburgh, Thomas Gainsborough, Jeanne Hébuterne, Luca Giordano, Simon Vouet, and Lucas van Leyden. After him are Ferdinand Hodler, Charles-François Daubigny, Agostino Carracci, Peder Severin Krøyer, Gerard van Honthorst, and Lorenzo Lotto.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1723, Joshua Reynolds ranks 4. Before him are Adam Smith, Baron d'Holbach, and Frederick V of Denmark. After him are Giovanni Antonio Scopoli, Carl Friedrich Abel, Adam Ferguson, Prithvi Narayan Shah, Mathurin Jacques Brisson, Johann Bernhard Basedow, Jean-François Marmontel, and Anna Amalia, Abbess of Quedlinburg. Among people deceased in 1792, Joshua Reynolds ranks 5. Before him are Leopold II, Holy Roman Emperor, Muhammad ibn Abd al-Wahhab, Gustav III of Sweden, and Marie Thérèse Louise of Savoy, Princesse de Lamballe. After him are Maria Luisa of Spain, Richard Arkwright, Johann van Beethoven, John Montagu, 4th Earl of Sandwich, Jacques Cazotte, Nguyễn Huệ, and Duke Ferdinand of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Joshua Reynolds ranks 464 out of 8,785. Before him are Thomas Harriot (1560), William Adams (1564), Austen Chamberlain (1863), Daphne du Maurier (1907), John Wallis (1616), and Edward the Martyr (962). After him are Julia Gillard (1961), Helena Bonham Carter (1966), Sid Vicious (1957), Bernie Ecclestone (1930), Eadred (923), and Saint Walpurga (710).

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Among PAINTERS In United Kingdom

Among painters born in United Kingdom, Joshua Reynolds ranks 6. Before him are J. M. W. Turner (1775), John Constable (1776), William Hogarth (1697), John Everett Millais (1829), and Thomas Gainsborough (1727). After him are Louis Wain (1860), William Holman Hunt (1827), Leonora Carrington (1917), Thomas Cole (1801), Thomas Lawrence (1769), and Richard Hamilton (1922).

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