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Lavinia, Countess Spencer.
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Oil paint on canvas
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63cm x 48cm
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unframed
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£165.00
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Joshua Reynold’s (1723-1792) father was an eminent reverend of the church and also the headmaster of a Devonshire grammar school that young Joshua attended in 1728. He received a good classical education under his dad and showed an early talent for painting. In 1740 a young 17 year old Reynolds went to London to study portraiture painting at the studio of Thomas Hudson, an artist to the gentry. While in London, Reynolds work was soon becoming in big demand, and to have a family portrait painted by Joshua Reynolds was considered noble status. Rex Marsden never received or showed an interest in a classical education, until the age of 57 when he had a stroke. It was then in 1997 he began to study the old masters in Art & Music and has chosen to try and reproduce one of Reynold’s illustrious pictures - that of the young, beautiful Countess Spencer (1782).
Exhibition only. Reproduction of original by (Joshua Reynolds)