Book Description
This book includes all the surviving letters of Sir Joshua Reynolds, Britain's most esteemed eighteenth-century portrait painter. Reynolds's 308 letters-almost double the number included in the last published edition of his letters-are accompanied by detailed notes that illuminate the correspondence and identify the friends, family members, and patrons to whom he wrote. Published for the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art
About the Author
John Ingamells was director of the Wallace Collection from 1978 to 1992 and is now a senior research fellow at the Paul Mellon Centre. He is the author of A Dictionary of British and Irish Travellers in Italy, published by Yale University Press. John Edgcumbe is a retired physician and a descendent of Sir Joshua Reynolds.
