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LIFE

OF

SIR.JOSHUA REYNOLDS.

Shortly will be published, with Illustrations, Fcap. 4to.,

A CATALOGUE RAISONNÉ

OF THE

WORKS OF SIR JOSHUA REYNOLDS;

WITH NOTICES OF

THEIR PRESENT OWNERS AND LOCALITIES.

BY TOM TAYLOR AND CHARLES W. FRANKS.

The numerous inquiries necessary for careful compilation of the Catalogue Raisonné of Sir Joshua's Pictures, and the Compiler's desire to avail himself of any information as to pictures that the publication of the Life and Times may elicit, have rendered it necessary to postpone the publication of the Catalogue. But the main portion of the materials is ready, and it may be expected in the course of the year.

JOHN MURRAY, ALBEMARLE STREET.

Ben Jonson, Fletcher, Hobbes, Andrew Marvell, Otway, Addison, Young, Thomson, Armstrong, Goldsmith, Churchill, Cowper, and Coleridge were the sons of clergymen. So were John Wesley, Paley, and Robert Hall, Sir Francis Drake and Lord Nelson, Sir Christopher Wren, Richard Wilson, and Sir David Wilkie; and among gifted women who were the

VOL. I.

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unugisers of Degymen. Miss Austen. I believe, deHATTHE the Erst place.

T: dkk Es might be alled many names of eminence l de Cat The comes too off some of the most femenished layers physicians and sclffers belong aho ban the preeminent are sufficient and I will condule it then fire, with that of Sir Joshua Reynolds, vil was to ever she connected with the Church. Ee åber and grandfather were dargymen. — his mother and ber mother were daughters of dingymen,— and two of his father's brothers were in holy crders.

Ee vas bom at Plympton Earl in Devonshire, 12 the 26th of July, 1723, where his father, Samuel Degrella and of John Reynolds visar of St. Thomas for Apostle Exeter, was master of the grammar school, hobi od slowed by the eclcbrated Serjeant

hummel Heppells married Theophila Porter, the to mám tổ whose parents is a melancholy one. Her mensen Therphila was the only child of the Rev. Tomas Baken, viar of Bishop's Nymmer (or Nympve, Dear Broth Milton, Devonshire, who was highly

ei is a mathematician. She became attached J. Pomen Der father's chaplain (it is said), but inmate, and they married without Mr. wrent who never forgave his daughter, and

Her husband died in a few years, 7mg widow, with a sen and two

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daughters; and the tradition is that she wept herself blind for his death, though she did not long survive him.

Her daughter Theophila was very young when Samuel Reynolds married her. All that I have been able to learn of her character is by incidental remarks found in letters, from which it appears she had her full share of intellect.

Of the father of Sir Joshua somewhat more is known. He was a scholar, guileless as a child, and as ignorant of the world.' He had obtained a fellowship of Balliol College, Oxford, and was known to Young, the author of the Night Thoughts. From the innocence of his heart and the simplicity of his manners, and from his being withal so absent, that, riding on horseback, in a pair of gambados, he dropped one by the way without missing it, he was likened, by his friends, to Fielding's Parson Adams.

Fielding tells us that Mr. Abraham Adams "was provided with a handsome income of twenty-three pounds a year, which, however, he could not make any great figure with, because he lived in a dear country, and was a little encumbered with a wife and six children."

Mr. Reynolds had the advantage of that excellent person in the number of his children; Northcote speaks of eleven, Mr. Cotton of ten or eleven, while

the only portrait of Samuel Reynolds, but as an example of the style of Sir Joshua before 1746, when his father died.-Ed.

1 The portrait of him, painted by | picture is of interest, not merely as his illustrious son, now in the Cottonian Library at Plymouth, represents a ruddy, round-faced, smoothvisaged man, almost bald, with a placid and sweet expression. The

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