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Park women, properly so called, are those degraded creatures, utterly lost to all sense of shame, who wander about the paths most frequented after nightfall in the Parks, and consent to any species of humiliation for the sake of acquiring a few shillings
Joshua Reynolds
Born: July 16, 1723
Died: February 23, 1792 (aged 68)
Bio: Sir Joshua Reynolds was an influential eighteenth-century English painter, specialising in portraits. He promoted the "Grand Style" in painting which depended on idealization of the imperfect.
Known for:
- Discourses on art
- A Journey to Flanders and Holland
- Discourses
- The letters of Sir Joshua Reynolds
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