2-702-487 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

'Sir Joshua Reynolds', (1933). Portrait of British painter Sir Joshua Reynolds (1723-1792) who promoted the 'Grand Style' in painting, and was a founder and first president of the Royal Academy of Arts in London. He held the position of Principal Painter in Ordinary to the king. After a miniature by William Hopkins Craft, after Reynolds' self portrait of 1786. From "Gestalten Der Weltgeschichte", a book of cigarette-card portrait miniatures of figures in world history from the last four hundred years. [Germany, 1933]