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    Volume 2
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  • Publisher:
    Cambridge University Press
    Publication date:
    05 October 2014
    20 March 2014
    ISBN:
    9781107252479
    9781108069076
    DOI:
    https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781107252479
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    (216 x 140 mm)
    Weight & Pages:
    0.48kg, 378 Pages
    • Subjects:
    Art: General Interest, Art, Architecture, Western Art
    Series:
    Cambridge Library Collection - Art and Architecture
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    Subjects:
    Art: General Interest, Art, Architecture, Western Art
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    Cambridge Library Collection - Art and Architecture
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    A fellow Devonian, James Northcote (1746–1831) was an admirer and pupil of Sir Joshua Reynolds, whose two-volume biography he published in 1813–15. Reissued here is the 'revised and augmented' second edition of 1818. Northcote is self-deprecating as to his fitness for the task, but claims that a worthy biography of a great artist can be written only by another artist, and his close personal knowledge of his subject and the circle in which Reynolds moved gives him insights, as well as providing anecdotes, which would not be available to a more 'professional' author. Volume 2 covers the remainder of Reynolds' life, including a description of his elaborate funeral and various assessments of his work, as well as details of the sale of his paintings, and a short account of the life of William Gandy, an obscure seventeenth-century painter whom Reynolds greatly admired.

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