Life and Times of Sir Joshua Reynolds: With Notices of Some of His Contemporaries. Commenced by C.R. Leslie. Continued and Concluded by T. Taylor

Leslie, Charles Robert

Biographies & Memoirs

Franklin Classics

The book may have numerous typos or missing text. It is not illustrated or indexed. However, purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original rare book from the publisher's website. You can also preview the book there. Purchasers are also entitled to a trial membership in the publisher's book club where they can select from more than a million books for free. Original Publisher: Ticknor and Fields Publication date: 1860 Description: "List of the principal pictures painted, and of all the pictures exhibited by C.R. Leslie": p. 357]-363. Subjects: Art / General; Art / History / General; Art / European; Art / Individual Artist; Biography

Autobiographical recollections (Biographies of British artists)

EP Pub

C.R. Leslie's memoir of his friend John Constable was first published in 1843 (with an expanded second edition in 1845) and has remained the standard biography of Constable ever since. The book is chiefly compiled from Constable's own correspondence and conversation; indeed its great authority arises from the fact that the story is told almost throughout in the subject's own words. Constable wrote as he painted, with an acute and serious eye on the subject, and with a spontaneous presentation of imagery; he also showed over and over again a robust wit and a taste for gossip. Leslie's memoir is thus still valuable on two counts: it is a classic biography, in which the author's warm and engaging personality is portrayed as freshly as on the first day of publication, and it is a art-historical source-book for the life and opinions of England's greatest landscape painter. This edition contains Leslie's complete and unabridged text. The preface and explanatory notes are by Jonathan Mayne, who also selected and annotated the 72 illustrations.

Memoirs of the Life of John Constable

Arts & Photography

Cornell University Press

Memoirs of the Life of John Constable, Esq., R. A.: Composed Chiefly of His Letters

History

Legare Street Press

This two-volume life of Sir Joshua Reynolds (1723-92) was begun by the Royal Academician Charles Leslie (1794-1859), who had previously published a life of John Constable, also reissued in this series. On Leslie's death, the journalist and dramatist Tom Taylor (1817-80) completed the work, published in 1865. Leslie's motive was that he felt that Reynolds had been unfairly treated by an earlier biography. He aimed to show that Reynolds was 'the genial centre of a most various and brilliant society, as well as the transmitter of its chief figures to our time by his potent art'. One of the greatest artists of the eighteenth century, especially famous for his portraits, Reynolds was also instrumental in founding the Royal Academy, and was its first president. Volume 1 covers his early life and his progress as an artist until his fiftieth year.

Life and Times of Sir Joshua Reynolds: Volume 1: With Notices of Some of his Cotemporaries (Cambridge Library Collection - Art and Architecture)

Taylor, Tom

History & Criticism

Cambridge University Press

This two-volume life of Sir Joshua Reynolds (1723-92) was begun by the Royal Academician Charles Leslie (1794-1859), who had previously published a life of John Constable, also reissued in this series. On Leslie's death, the journalist and dramatist Tom Taylor (1817-80) completed the work, published in 1865. Leslie's motive was that he felt that Reynolds had been unfairly treated by an earlier biography. He aimed to show that Reynolds was 'the genial centre of a most various and brilliant society, as well as the transmitter of its chief figures to our time by his potent art'. One of the greatest artists of the eighteenth century, especially famous for his portraits, Reynolds was also instrumental in founding the Royal Academy, and was its first president. Volume 2 begins in 1773, and ends with Reynolds' death. Leslie also provides an assessment of his status as an artist.

Life and Times of Sir Joshua Reynolds: Volume 2: With Notices of Some of his Cotemporaries (Cambridge Library Collection - Art and Architecture)

This two-volume life of Sir Joshua Reynolds (1723-92) was begun by the Royal Academician Charles Leslie (1794-1859), who had previously published a life of John Constable, also reissued in this series. On Leslie's death, the journalist and dramatist Tom Taylor (1817-80) completed the work, published in 1865. Leslie's motive was that he felt that Reynolds had been unfairly treated by an earlier biography. He aimed to show that Reynolds was 'the genial centre of a most various and brilliant society, as well as the transmitter of its chief figures to our time by his potent art'. One of the greatest artists of the eighteenth century, especially famous for his portraits, Reynolds was also instrumental in founding the Royal Academy, and was its first president. He taught and lectured on art, and moved in the intellectual circle as his intimate friend Dr Johnson, Charles Burney, Gibbon and Sheridan.

Life and Times of Sir Joshua Reynolds 2 Volume Set: With Notices of Some of his Cotemporaries (Cambridge Library Collection - Art and Architecture)

The Royal Academician Charles Leslie (1794-1859) also wrote biographies of fellow painters. His life of John Constable and a two-volume work on Sir Joshua Reynolds are also reissued in this series. On his death, the Reynolds work was completed by the journalist and dramatist Tom Taylor (1817-80), who also edited Leslie's two-volume autobiography, published in 1860. Though born in London, Leslie was an American, a child prodigy in drawing, who returned to Britain in 1811 to study painting with Benjamin West and Washington Allston. He had enormous admiration for the paintings of his contemporaries and of the previous generation, and his reminiscences are intended to preserve 'some recollections of those chiefly whom I could praise'. Volume 1 of this lively and self-deprecating work, full of good-humoured anecdotes, is prefaced by an introductory essay by Taylor on Leslie and his art.

Autobiographical Recollections: With a Prefatory Essay on Leslie as an Artist, and Selections from his Correspondence (Cambridge Library Collection - Art and Architecture) (Volume 1)

Autobiographical Recollections: With a Prefatory Essay on Leslie as an Artist, and Selections from his Correspondence (Cambridge Library Collection - Art and Architecture) (Volume 2)

Nabu Press

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Life and Times of Sir Joshua Reynolds: With Notices of Some of His Contemporaries. Commenced by C.R. Leslie. Continued and Concluded by T. Taylor

Autobiographical recollections (Biographies of British artists)

Memoirs of the Life of John Constable

Memoirs of the Life of John Constable, Esq., R. A.: Composed Chiefly of His Letters

Life and Times of Sir Joshua Reynolds: Volume 1: With Notices of Some of his Cotemporaries (Cambridge Library Collection - Art and Architecture)

Life and Times of Sir Joshua Reynolds: Volume 2: With Notices of Some of his Cotemporaries (Cambridge Library Collection - Art and Architecture)

Life and Times of Sir Joshua Reynolds 2 Volume Set: With Notices of Some of his Cotemporaries (Cambridge Library Collection - Art and Architecture)

Autobiographical Recollections: With a Prefatory Essay on Leslie as an Artist, and Selections from his Correspondence (Cambridge Library Collection - Art and Architecture) (Volume 1)

Autobiographical Recollections: With a Prefatory Essay on Leslie as an Artist, and Selections from his Correspondence (Cambridge Library Collection - Art and Architecture) (Volume 2)

Life and Times of Sir Joshua Reynolds: With Notices of Some of His Contemporaries. Commenced by C.R. Leslie. Continued and Concluded by T. Taylor