Sir Joshua Reynolds (1723-1792)

• Was an English painter.
• Reynolds was born in Plympton, Devon to a scholarly clergyman and had a more educated background than most painters.
• He studied painting in London under Thomas Hudson from 1740 to 1743.
• Reynolds's paintings are often in their original frames and are sometimes displayed in their original 18th century positions in the National Trust collections.
• Reynolds was buried at St Paul's Cathedral.
• In 1903, a statue, by Alfred Drury, was erected in his honour in the Annenberg Courtyard of Burlington House, home of the Royal Academy.
• Around the statue are fountains and lights, installed in 2000, arranged in the pattern of a star chart at midnight on the night of Reynolds' birth.
• The displayed painting is a crop from: Sir Joshua Reynolds, Self-Portrait, c. 1775.
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