49 Joshua Reynolds, Self-Portrait in the Robes of Doctor of Civil Law, c....

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TitleSelf-Portrait

Creator nameReynolds, Joshua

Creator nationality/cultureBritish (modern)

Creator rolePainter

Creation datec. 1780

Object typePainting

MaterialsOil on panel

LocationRoyal Academy of Arts, London

https://www.royalacademy.org.uk/art-artists/work-of-art/self-portrait-of-sir-joshua-reynolds-p-r-a

Accession number03/1394

SubjectsSelf-portraitsArtists--PortraitsPortrait painting, BritishBusts, RenaissancePortrait painting, English--Dutch influencesSilk garmentsClothing and dress--Great BritainCostume--History--18th century

StatusArtist rests hand on case of a bust of Michelangelo by Daniel da Volterra (1564–1566, Casa Buonarroti, Florence).

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Introduction. Truth and History: The Meaning of Dress in Art, 1750–1820

Aileen Ribeiro

The Art of Dress: Fashion in England and France, 1750 to 1820

Dress is the most fleeting of the arts, a prey to the arbitrary dictates of novelty and the attacks of critics, subject to endless speculation – and quite meaningless out of historical context...

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Aileen Ribeiro

PublisherYale University Press

Related print edition pages: pp.1-31

https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00308.1

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Chapter subject tags:Costume--History--18th centuryCostume--History--19th centuryClothing and dress--Great Britain--History--18th centuryPortrait painting, British--18th centuryPortrait painting, French--18th centuryReynolds, Joshua, Sir, 1723–1792Ramsay, Allan, 1713-1784Clothing and dress--France--History--18th centuryVigée-Lebrun, Louise-Elisabeth, 1755-1842Hogarth, William, 1697-1764Gainsborough, Thomas, 1727-1788Art and society--Britain--History--18th centuryArt and society--France--History--18th century

11. The Prince of Wales at Somerset House

Mark Hallett

Reynolds: Portraiture in Action

~~In 1780, the Royal Academy moved into its first proper home. Over the previous decade, the institution’s annual...

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Mark Hallett

PublisherPaul Mellon Centre

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https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00296.12

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Chapter subject tags:Reynolds, Joshua, Sir, 1723–1792Somerset House (London, England)Great Britain--History--George III, 1760-1820Royal Academy of Arts (Great Britain)Portrait painting, British--18th century

3. Sentimental Spaces

Angela Rosenthal

Angelica Kauffman: Art and Sensibility

ACCORDING TO HIS salon criticism of 1767, Denis Diderot had placed his portrait painted by Anna Dorothea Therbusch opposite the one that Louis-Michel Van Loo had done of him in the same year...

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Angela Rosenthal

PublisherPaul Mellon Centre

Related print edition pages: pp.77-121

https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00255.004

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Chapter subject tags:Kauffmann, Angelica, 1741-1807Diderot, Denis, 1713-1784Vigée-Lebrun, Louise-Elisabeth, 1755-1842Reynolds, Joshua, Sir, 1723–1792Painting, British--18th centuryPortrait painting, British--18th centuryPortrait painting, Swiss--18th centuryGainsborough, Thomas, 1727-1788Women artists--Switzerland--18th century

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