The Life and Times of Sir Joshua Reynolds: With Notices of Some of His Contemporaries. Commenced by Charles Robert Leslie, Continued and Concluded by Tom Taylor. Published by John Murray, London, 1865. This two-volume life of Sir Joshua Reynolds (1723-92) was begun by the Royal Academician Charles

Book Description: First Edition. Life and Times of Sir Joshua Reynolds: With Notices of Some of His Contemporaries. Commenced by Charles Robert Leslie, Continued and Concluded by Tom Taylor. Published by John Murray, London, 1865. This two-volume life of Sir Joshua Reynolds (1723-92) was begun by the Royal Academician Charles Leslie (1794-1859) and completed by the journalist and dramatist Tom Taylor (1817-80). Two volumes in contemporary half pebbled green and brown Morocco over marbled boards, the backs with gilt rules and lettering, marbled end papers. Very Good, xvii, 532, vii, 646 pp. Illustrated with frontispiece and 5 plates Vol. I and a frontispiece and 4 plates Vol. II. A handsome and sturdy set. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Bookplate of Mass Supreme Court Justice C Loring.

This 1865 two-volume life of Sir Joshua Reynolds (1723-92) was begun by the Royal Academician Charles Leslie (1794-1859) and completed by the journalist and dramatist Tom Taylor (1817-80). One of the greatest artists of the eighteenth century, Reynolds was also the first president of the Royal Academy.

Sir Joshua Reynolds 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. This 1865 two-volume life of Sir Joshua Reynolds (1723-92) was begun by the Royal Academician Charles Leslie (1794-1859) and completed by the journalist and dramatist Tom Taylor (1817-80). One of the greatest artists of the eighteenth century, Reynolds was also the first president of the Royal Academy.