Catalogue · undated (2)

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The catalogue — portraits, fancy pictures and histories in chronological order, each with a commentary.

714 works by the painter and workshop · 24 copies and works after · 44,380 words of commentary · Part 17 of 21 ·

The works of Sir Joshua Reynolds · continued

undated Josiah Wedgwood I (1730–1795)

V&A Wedgwood Collection · painting · canvas, oil paint · 108.5 × 96 cm

Josiah Wedgwood I (V&A Wedgwood Collection): a portrait of the great potter (1730–1795), the pioneer of the ceramic industry and a figure of the age's enterprise; at the Wedgwood collection.

undated King Lear

Royal Shakespeare Theatre · painting · canvas, oil paint · 76 × 63 cm

King Lear (Royal Shakespeare Theatre): a Shakespearean fancy or history subject, of the kind Reynolds and his circle painted for Boydell's Shakespeare Gallery and the like.

undated Lady Anne Bonfoy, née Eliot (1729–1810)

Port Eliot · painting · canvas, oil paint · 124.7 × 100.7 cm

Lady Anne Bonfoy, née Eliot (Port Eliot): a portrait of a daughter of the Eliot family, at Port Eliot.

undated Lady Fitzpatrick as 'Sylvia'

Brighton Museum & Art Gallery · painting · canvas, oil paint · 44.5 × 35.7 cm

Lady Fitzpatrick as 'Sylvia' (Brighton Museum): a fancy portrait of a lady in a pastoral role, in the mode of the poetic portrait.

undated Lieutenant General George Augustus Eliott (1717–1790), 1st Baron Heathfield, General and Defender of Gibraltar, Governor of Gibraltar (1777–1790)

Government Art Collection · painting · canvas, oil paint · 140 × 113 cm

Lieutenant General George Augustus Eliott, later Lord Heathfield (Government Art Collection): a portrait of the defender of Gibraltar (see the National Gallery Lord Heathfield); a version in the government collection.

undated Margaret, Lady Beaumont

Dove Cottage · painting · canvas, oil paint · 60 × 50 cm

Margaret, Lady Beaumont (Dove Cottage, Wordsworth Trust): the wife of Sir George Beaumont, the collector and patron of Wordsworth and Constable; her portrait descends in the Wordsworthian collection.

undated Mary (d.1789), Countess of Lauderdale

Thirlestane Castle · painting · canvas, oil paint · 75 × 60.2 cm

Mary, Countess of Lauderdale (Thirlestane Castle): a portrait of the Maitland family, at the Lauderdales' Scottish seat; compare the Sydney Earl of Lauderdale.

undated Mary Palmer, née Reynolds (1716–1794)

The Box · painting · canvas, oil paint · 74.5 × 61.3 cm

Mary Palmer, née Reynolds (The Box, Plymouth): a portrait of the painter's sister Mary, who married the Devon banker John Palmer; a family picture at Plymouth.

undated Mary, Countess Harcourt

Princeton Art Museum · painting · canvas, oil paint · 84.5 × 63 cm

Mary, Countess Harcourt (Princeton University Art Museum): the wife of the 2nd Earl Harcourt, ambassador and courtier; a female portrait of the grand manner, now at Princeton.

undated Miss Morris

Princeton Art Museum · painting · canvas, oil paint · 67 × 53.5 cm

Miss Morris (Princeton University Art Museum): a young woman, perhaps the actress and singer of the name who died young; see also the Port Eliot Hope Nursing Love, for which a Miss Morris sat as Hope.

undated Mrs Abington (c.1737–1815), as the Comic Muse

Waddesdon Manor · painting · canvas, oil paint · 236 × 147.5 cm

Mrs Abington as the Comic Muse (Waddesdon Manor): the comic actress Frances Abington (c. 1737–1815), Reynolds's friend and frequent sitter, here as the Muse of Comedy — the counterpart to Siddons as the Tragic Muse.

undated Mrs Bower of Plymouth (?)

Walker Art Gallery · painting · oil paint, canvas · 61.5 × 51 cm

Mrs Bower of Plymouth (?) (Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool): an uncertainly identified female sitter, perhaps from Reynolds's Devon connections; a portrait of the middle career.

undated Mrs Hartley (1750/1751–1824), and Child

Sudley House · painting · canvas, oil paint · 91.5 × 71 cm

Mrs Hartley and Child (Sudley House, Liverpool): the actress Elizabeth Hartley with a child, in a maternal group; a theatrical sitter of the 1770s.

undated Mrs Robinson (1758–1800)

Laing Art Gallery · painting · canvas, oil paint · 64 × 50.8 cm

Mrs Robinson ('Perdita') (Laing Art Gallery, Newcastle): Mary Robinson (1758–1800), the actress, poet and mistress of the Prince of Wales, whose liaison with Tarleton framed the Academy of 1782; a version of Reynolds's portrait of her.

undated Mrs. Peter Beckford

Lady Lever Art Gallery · painting · canvas, oil paint · 239 × 147 cm

Mrs Peter Beckford (Lady Lever Art Gallery, Port Sunlight): Louisa Beckford, of the sugar-fortune family, in the female grand manner; one of the twelve Reynoldses in Lord Leverhulme's collection.

undated Mrs. Robinson (Mary Darby Robinson)

Museum of Fine Arts Boston · painting · canvas, oil paint · 76.5 × 63.5 cm

Mrs Robinson (Mary Darby Robinson) (Museum of Fine Arts, Boston): a version of Reynolds's portrait of 'Perdita', the actress and mistress of the Prince of Wales.

undated Old Man Reading

Auckland Art Gallery · painting · canvas, oil paint · 76.5 × 63.5 cm

Old Man Reading (Auckland Art Gallery): a fancy head or study of an old man reading, of the kind Reynolds made from models like George White; the furthest-flung of the collections here.

undated Portrait Of A Woman, Said To Be Mrs. Barnard

· painting

Portrait of a Woman, said to be Mrs Barnard (private collection): an uncertainly identified female sitter, a characteristic three-quarter-length of the studio's ordinary output.

undated Portrait of Captain George Edgcumbe, later 1st Earl of Mount-Edgcumbe (1720-1795)

National Gallery of Ireland · painting · canvas, oil paint · 76 × 63 cm

Captain George Edgcumbe, later 1st Earl of Mount Edgcumbe (National Gallery of Ireland): a naval portrait of Reynolds's early Devon patron; see the Greenwich versions.

undated Portrait of Edward Pauncefort

· painting

Edward Pauncefort (private collection): a male portrait of a gentleman sitter; the identification is traditional.

undated Portrait of Lady Mary Leslie

· painting · 44.9 × 31.2 cm

Lady Mary Leslie (private collection): a portrait of a daughter of the Earl of Rothes, in the female manner of the middle career; one of the many Scottish-peerage sitters in the books.

undated Portrait of a Child

Lady Lever Art Gallery · painting · canvas, oil paint · 37.5 × 32 cm

Portrait of a Child (Lady Lever Art Gallery): a child portrait or fancy head, at Port Sunlight.

undated Portrait of a Gentleman (possibly George Bridges Brudenell)

Weston Park · painting · canvas, oil paint · 75 × 61 cm

Portrait of a Gentleman (possibly George Bridges Brudenell) (Weston Park): an uncertainly identified male sitter, at the Bradford family's seat.

undated Portrait of a Lady

Tate · painting · canvas, oil paint · 62.2 × 75.6 cm

Portrait of a Lady (Tate/National Gallery): an unidentified female sitter in the national collections.

undated Portrait of a Lady

Bowes Museum · painting · canvas, oil paint · 54.4 × 46.3 cm

Portrait of a Lady (Bowes Museum): an unidentified female sitter, in the female manner.

undated Portrait of a Lady

Glasgow Museums Resource Centre · painting · canvas, oil paint · 75.6 × 62.9 cm

Portrait of a Lady (Glasgow Museums): an unidentified female sitter.

undated Portrait of a Lady

Glasgow Museums Resource Centre · painting · canvas, oil paint · 76.2 × 63.5 cm

Portrait of a Lady (Glasgow Museums): another unidentified female sitter.

undated Portrait of a Lady (said to be Miss Reynolds)

Victoria and Albert Museum · painting · canvas, oil paint · 60 × 49.8 cm

Portrait of a Lady (said to be Miss Reynolds) (Victoria and Albert Museum): a female portrait, perhaps of the painter's sister Frances; the identification is traditional.

undated Portrait of a Lady, possibly Mrs Pigott of Chetwynd

Nationalmuseum · painting · canvas, oil paint · 76 × 63.5 cm

Portrait of a Lady, possibly Mrs Pigott of Chetwynd (Nationalmuseum, Stockholm): a female portrait, the companion perhaps to the Stockholm 'Mr Pigott' (in the article entries).

undated Portrait of a Man (said to be Lord Anson)

Museum of Fine Arts Boston · painting · canvas, oil paint · 75.5 × 62.2 cm

Portrait of a Man (said to be Lord Anson) (Museum of Fine Arts, Boston): an uncertainly identified male sitter, perhaps the circumnavigator and admiral Lord Anson.

undated Portrait of a Woman

Museum of Fine Arts Boston · painting · canvas, oil paint · 76.5 × 63.5 cm

Portrait of a Woman (Museum of Fine Arts, Boston): an unidentified female sitter.

undated Portrait of a Woman (said to be Lady Scott)

Museum of Fine Arts Boston · painting · canvas, oil paint · 76.5 × 64.1 cm

Portrait of a Woman (said to be Lady Scott) (Museum of Fine Arts, Boston): an uncertainly identified female sitter.

undated Portrait of an Old Gent

Dover Collections · painting · canvas, oil paint · 74.8 × 62 cm

Portrait of an Old Gentleman (Dover Collections): an unidentified male sitter of the middle or later career.

undated Porträt des Sir Richard Worsley, 7th Baronet (1751-1805)

http://www.wikidata.org/.well-known/genid/2ea19d6d2938ef65118337a66143b786 · painting · canvas, oil paint · 233.7 × 142.2 cm

Sir Richard Worsley, 7th Bt (private collection): a portrait of the husband of the Lady Worsley (in the article entries), the antiquary and cuckold of the 1782 scandal.

undated Queen Charlotte (1744–1818)

Parliamentary Art Collection · painting · oil paint, canvas · 233.6 × 132 cm

Queen Charlotte (Parliamentary Art Collection): a version of Reynolds's portrait of the Queen, in the Parliamentary collection.

undated Queen Charlotte (1744–1818), Queen Consort of George III

The Box · painting · canvas, oil paint · 240 × 145 cm

Queen Charlotte (The Box, Plymouth): a version of the Queen's portrait.

undated Queen Charlotte (1744–1818), Wife of George III

Windsor Guildhall · painting · oil paint, canvas · 260 × 150 cm

Queen Charlotte (Windsor Guildhall): the pendant portrait of the Queen; Reynolds painted the royal couple without the warmth he gave his chosen sitters, and the versions supplied institutions.

undated Reverend Samuel Reynolds

The Box · painting · canvas, oil paint · 75 × 62 cm

The Reverend Samuel Reynolds (The Box, Plymouth): a portrait of the painter's father, the master of Plympton grammar school who set his son on the path with Richardson's Theory of Painting; a family picture at Plymouth.

undated Richard Brinsley Sheridan (1751–1816)

Parliamentary Art Collection · painting · canvas, oil paint

Richard Brinsley Sheridan (Parliamentary Art Collection): the playwright of The School for Scandal and Whig MP (1751–1816), a member of the Club and Reynolds's friend; a portrait of the age's great wit and orator.

undated Richard Hopkins (c.1728–1799)

Queens' College · painting · canvas, oil paint · 74 × 61 cm

Richard Hopkins (Queens' College, Cambridge): a portrait of a college benefactor or member; an academic portrait.

Works retrieved from Wikidata (creator P170 = Q194402, with image P18); dates from P571 where present, otherwise supplied from the literature; locations from P195/P276; materials P186; dimensions P2048/P2049. Tier labels reflect how many Wikipedia language editions carry an article on the work. Images from Wikimedia Commons; click to enlarge, arrow keys to step. Fetched 2026-08-21.

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