1795
oil
canvas
From the collection of Fitzwilliam Museum
The Braddyll Family is a 1795 oil by Joshua Reynolds, held at Fitzwilliam Museum.
The Braddyll Family is a 1789 portrait painting by the British artist Joshua Reynolds It is a group portrait featuring the landowner and politician Wilson Gale-Braddyll his wife Jane and son Thomas. Critics have noted that it was produced the same year that the French Revolution broke out across the English Channel yet demonstrates the self-confidence of the British elite. Reynolds was the President of the Royal Academy at the time and Britain's leading portraitist of the period. It was amongst the final major works produced by Reynolds before his health declined. Today the painting is in…
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Sir Joshua Reynolds (16 July 1723 – 23 February 1792) was an English painter who specialised in portraits.
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