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Richard Malone, Lord Sunderlin (National Gallery of Ireland): a portrait of the brother of the scholar Edmond Malone.
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 18 of 21 ·
Richard Malone, Lord Sunderlin (National Gallery of Ireland): a portrait of the brother of the scholar Edmond Malone.
Robinetta (Brighton Museum): a fancy picture of a girl with a robin, one of Reynolds's sentimental child-subjects; a version (the type is at the Tate).
Samuel Johnson (Harvard Art Museums): one of Reynolds's several portraits of his closest friend; the Harvard version, in America, is among the images by which Johnson's face is known.
Samuel Johnson (Samuel Johnson Birthplace Museum): a version of one of Reynolds's Johnson portraits, at Lichfield, the writer's birthplace.
Samuel Johnson (Pembroke College, Oxford): a version of a Johnson portrait at Johnson's own Oxford college, which he left without a degree and which later honoured him.
Self-portrait (private collection): one of the many self-portraits Reynolds made across his career; without a firm date, a specimen of his lifelong self-scrutiny.
Self-portrait (Chequers): one of the self-portraits, at the prime minister's country house.
Self-portrait (Port Eliot): a self-portrait at the Eliots' Cornish seat, which holds the largest private group of Reynoldses.
Sir James Pennyman, Bt (National Trust): a portrait of a Yorkshire baronet.
Sir John Cust (Parliamentary Art Collection): a version of the portrait of the Speaker of the Commons; in the Parliamentary collection.
Sir John Cust, Speaker of the House of Commons (Corpus Christi College, Cambridge): a portrait of the Speaker; an academic and parliamentary portrait.
Sir John Fleming Leicester, 1st Lord de Tabley (Tabley House): a portrait of the collector who formed one of the first galleries of British art; at his own house.
Sir Joshua Reynolds, First President of the Royal Academy (Government Art Collection): a self-portrait or version, in the national collection of government art.
Sir Walter Blackett, Bt, MP for Newcastle (Royal Victoria Infirmary, Newcastle): a portrait of the Northumberland magnate and benefactor; a civic full-length of the kind provincial corporations commissioned.
Sir William Lowther, 3rd Bt (Weston Park): a portrait of a young baronet who died at twenty-nine; at Weston Park.
Sketch of Sir Abraham Hume (Ashmolean Museum): an oil sketch for a portrait of the collector and mineralogist Sir Abraham Hume, a connoisseur of Reynolds's circle.
Sleeping Girl (Museum of Fine Arts, Ghent): a fancy picture of a sleeping child, in the sentimental mode; one of the few Reynoldses in Belgium.
Studio Experiments in Colour and Media (Royal Academy of Arts): a panel of Reynolds's technical trials — the fugitive carmines, waxes and media whose failure ruined so many pictures; a document of the recklessness the essay describes.
Study for 'Beggar Man (George White)' (Blackburn Museum): a study of the model George White, a former paviour whose striking head Reynolds used for the Ugolino and other subjects; a rare study from a favourite model.
The Captive (Ashmolean Museum): a fancy picture of a captive figure, in the sentimental-picturesque mode of the subject-pictures.
The Entrance to Mr Thrale's Park, Streatham (Victoria and Albert Museum): a rare landscape sketch by Reynolds, of the Streatham grounds of the Thrales — Johnson's hosts and Reynolds's friends; a glimpse of the painter off duty.
The Holy Family with St John (Shipley Art Gallery): a religious subject-picture, of the kind Reynolds occasionally attempted.
The Holy Family with the Infant St John (Ashmolean Museum): a rare religious subject-picture by Reynolds, in the manner of the Italian devotional picture he studied; the Ashmolean's example.
The Hon. Edward James Eliot (Port Eliot): a portrait of a son of the Eliot family, the friend of Pitt and Wilberforce; at Port Eliot.
The Marquis of Granby (Guildhall Art Gallery): a portrait of John Manners, Marquess of Granby (1721–1770), the beloved commander of the Seven Years' War whose bald head named a thousand pubs; a military portrait.
Thomas Secker, Bishop of Oxford, later Archbishop of Canterbury (St Edmund Hall, Oxford): a portrait of the primate; an ecclesiastical portrait at Oxford.
Thomas Dawson, 1st Viscount Cremorne (Royal Albert Memorial Museum, Exeter): a portrait of an Irish peer; a grand male portrait in a West Country museum.
View from Wick House, Richmond (Orleans House Gallery): a landscape from Reynolds's own villa at Richmond, Wick House, which Chambers built for him; a rare landscape and a personal one.
William Augustus, Duke of Cumberland (Town Hall): the victor of Culloden, 'the Butcher', third son of George II; a portrait of the royal duke.
William Hunter (Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow): a portrait of the anatomist.
William Markham, Archbishop of York (Christ Church, Oxford): a portrait of the archbishop and headmaster of Westminster; an ecclesiastical portrait at his Oxford college.
William Mason, Poet (Pembroke College, Cambridge): a portrait of the poet and Gray's biographer.
Young Girl, Draped in a Robe (Newnham College, Cambridge): a fancy head or study of a young girl.
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.