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Style in painting is the same as in writing; a power over materials, whether words or colors, by which conceptions or sentiments are conveyed.
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The greatest natural genius cannot subsist on its own stock: he who resolves never to ransack any mind but his own, will be soon reduced, from mere barrenness, to the poorest of all imitations; he will be obliged to imitate himself, and to repeat what he has before often repeated. When we know the subject designed by such men, it will never be difficult to guess what kind of work is to be produced.
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Born:
July 16, 1723
Died:
February 23, 1792
(aged 68)
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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.
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