Word: joshua
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...most important paintings of Sir Joshua Reynolds, leading portrait painter of the English school in the 18th Century, were purchased by Americans at the private sale of the late Sir Charles Tennant (father of Mrs. H. H. Asquith) through Duveen Brothers, New York. The buyers and prices were not announced. The pictures...
...Portrait of Lady Diana Crosbie, daughter of Lord George Sackville, one of Sir Joshua's greatest full-length portraits, comparable with the famous Mrs. Siddons as the Tragic Muse (owned by Henry Huntington) and Nelly O'Brien (in the Wallace Collection, London). The painting was first exhibited at the Royal Academy of 1779, and depicts Lady Crosbie, then but 21 years old, charmingly posed on a lawn, elaborately gowned and coifed, with a landscape background...
...Drummond when a young lady and A Page, companion picture in blue to the famous Blue Boy, which Henry E. Huntington carried off last year to his California home for $640,000; Sir Thomas Lawrence's Boy with a Dog and Portrait of a Lady; Sir Joshua Reynolds' Portrait of Mrs. Mathew; Romney's Mrs. Chitty Marshall; Velasquez' Two Princesses; Fra Angelico's Day of Judgment; Piero di Cosimo's panels of the life of Jason; Rembrandt's Portrait of an Old Man, which brought $55,062; four sentimental Boucher panels...
...accomplished his end with unobtrusive canniness. Dr. Johnson's curious ménage at Gough Street?a party at the Thrales'?Mrs. Thrale's decision to marry Piozzi?Dr. Johnson's death?so run the four acts and among the actors are all the Johnsonian company, Sir Joshua Reynolds, Fanny Burney, Burke, Goldsmith, Boswell, Peg Woffington, down to Mr. Levett and even Bet Flint. An experiment comprising much diverting and edifying matter worthy the studious attention of all Johnsonians...
...Joshua's desertion of the patriarchal farm...