1. Joshua
Reynolds
(1723-1792)
Sir Joshua Reynolds, detail of self-
portrait, oil on panel, 1780; in the
Royal Academy of Arts, London.
Royal Academy of Arts, London

3. Honourable Augustus
Keppel
(1753–54; National Maritime Museum,
Greenwich, London).
The pose is not original, being a
reversal of the “Apollo Belvedere,” an
ancient Roman copy of a mid-4th-
century-bc Hellenistic statue Reynolds
had seen in the Vatican.

4. • “Nelly O’Brien” (1760–62)
Venetian
Painting
“Lord Cathcart” (1753/1754)

5. Mrs. Siddons as a Tragic
Muse

6. Heads of Angels
Although he remained
a bachelor throughout
his life, with no
children of his own, he
was thoroughly at
home with them. He
could make their eyes
light up with mischief
or merriment, or open
wide with wonder.