16 July 2024

Happy Birthday, Reynolds

Reynolds, Colonel Tarleton, 1782


In the practice of art it is necessary to keep a watchful and jealous eye over ourselves; idleness, assuming the specious disguise of industry may be employed to evade and shuffle off real labor -- the real labor of thinking.

Sir Joshua Reynolds, born on this day in 1723

1 comment:

  1. A fine portrait of "Bloody Tarlton," infamous for his exploits in South Carolina during the American Revolution.

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