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Portrait Of Nelly O'Brien
''Portrait of Nelly O'Brien'' is a c.1762 portrait painting by the British artist Joshua Reynolds. It depicts the well-known London courtesan Nelly O'Brien (courtesan), Nelly O'Brien. A friend of Reynolds, she sat for him a number of times between 1760 and 1767. She was the mistress of several aristocrats before her early death in 1768. Reynolds displayed a painting of O'Neill at the Exhibition of 1762 held by the Society of Artists of Great Britain, Society of Artists in Spring Gardens, which may be either this or another portrait of her now in the Hunterian Museum and Art Gallery, Hunterian in Glasgow. O'Brien is shown in fashionable mid-century dress with a Leghorn bonnet holding a Maltese lapdog. The painting is now in the Wallace Collection in Manchester Square, having been acquired by the Francis Ingram-Seymour-Conway, 2nd Marquess of Hertford, Marquess of Hertford in 1810. https://wallacelive.wallacecollection.org/eMP/eMuseumPlus?service=ExternalInterface&module=collecti ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joshua Reynolds
Sir Joshua Reynolds (16 July 1723 – 23 February 1792) was an English painter who specialised in portraits. The art critic John Russell (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 manner, "Grand Style" in painting, which depended on idealisation of the imperfect. He was a founder and first president of the Royal Academy of Arts and was Knight Bachelor, knighted by George III in 1769. He has been referred to as the 'master who revolutionised British Art.' Reynolds had a famously prolific studio that produced over 2,000 paintings during his lifetime. Ellis Waterhouse, EK Waterhouse estimated those works the painter did ‘think worthy’ at ‘hardly less than a hundred paintings which one would like to take into consideration, either for their success, their original ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
