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To which is prefixed, an Account of the Life and Writings of the Author, by EDMUND MALONE, ESQ. one of his Executors. 2 Vols. 4to. pp. 735. Boards. 11. 16s. Cadell and Davies. VOL. I. PRESENTS us with fifteen Dif courfes delivered by Sir Joshua at the Royal Academy, together with Nos. 76, 77, 79, and 82, of the Idler, the whole of which having already met the public eye, we fhall decline any particular epitome, and proceed to give an abridgement from SUME ACCOUNT OF THE LIFE AND WRITINGS OF SIR JOSHUA REYNOLDS, Who was born at Plympton, in Devonshire, July 16, 1723. His father, 66 Mr. Samuel Reynolds, "taught the Grammar School at VOL. I.-No. V. "Plympton, which could have "afforded him but a moderate fub"fiftence; nor was he enabled by "any ecclefiaftical preferment to "provide for his numerous family, "amounting to eleven children in "all, of whom Jofhua was the "tenth. Five, however, of these "children died in their infancy. "His father had a notion that it 66 might, at fome future period of his life, be an advantage to have a child bear an uncommon "chriftian name, which might re"commend him to the attention "and kindness of fome perfon 66 bearing the fame name, who, "if he fhould happen to have no "natural object of his care, might "be led, even by fo flight a circum"ftance, to become a benefactor. "Hence our author derived the fcriptural name of Joshua, which, "though not very uncommon,occurs "lefs frequently than many others. "Of this baptifinal name, how"ever, the register of Plympton, "by fome negligence or inaccuracy, "has deprived him. "His early attempts at delinea❝tion were encouraged by his "father. His principal fund of "imitation was Jacob Catt's Book of "Emblems, which his great grand"mother by the father's fide, a Tt Dutch "Dutch woman, had brought with "her from Holland. When he "was but eight years old, he read "with great avidity the JESUIT's "PERSPECTIVE, and made himself "fo completely mafter of it, that "he never afterwards had occafion "to study any other treatife on that "fubject. He then attempted to "draw the fchool at Plympton, a "building elevated on stone pil"lars; and he did it fo well, that "his father faid, "Now this exemplifies what the author of the "Perspective afferts in bis pre"face, that, by obferving the rules "laid down in his book, a man may "do wonders; for this is wonderful. "From these attempts he proceeded "to draw likenefies of the family with tolerable fuccefs." the head of his profeffion, but to be the greatest painter England had feen fince Vandyck. Soon after his return, he became known to Dr. Johnson, and "cultivated his ac"quaintance with the laudable zeal "of one who was ambitious of ge"neral improvement." Mr. Malone here gives an account of the origin and incorporation of that Academy, of which Sir Joshua was fo long and defervedly the head, and in which capacity he received the honour of knighthood. The talk of giving lectures he voluntarily impofed on himself, for reasons he bas given in his 15th Difcourfe. "It appeared neceffary that "fomething fhould be faid by the "Prefident on the delivery of prizes, and the Prefident, for his At the age of feventeen he was own credit, would wish to fay placed as a pupil under Mr. Hudson, "fomething more than words of who, though but an ordinary "mere compliment; which, by "painter, was the most distinguish-"being frequently repeated, would "ed artist of that time." "foon become flat and unintereft"ing, and by being uttered to many, "would at laft be a diftinction to none. I thought, therefore, if I were to preface this compliment "with fome instructive observations 66 on the art, when we crowned "merit in the artists whom we "rewarded, I might do fomething to animate and guide them in "their future attempts." 66 at a late period of his life he faw this portrait, he was fur"prifed to find it fo well done; and, comparing it with his latter works, "lamented that in fuch a feries of "years he fhould not have made a 66 greater progrefs in his art." The death of his father in 1746 "left our young painter to raite, as he could, the fabric of his "fortune." He afterwards became acquainted with the late Lord Edgcumbe, and Captain, afterwards Lord Keppel, by each of whom he was warmly patronized. The latter he accompanied to the Mediterranean, vifited Algiers, Gibraltar, Cadiz, Lisbon, and Minorca, from whence he failed to Leghorn, and from thence proceeded to Rome. On his return to London in 1752, he exhibited fuch powers, that he was not only acknowledged to be at Such was the laudable motive which produced the 15 Difcourfes pronounced by our author between the 2d of June, 1769, and the 10th of December, 1790. After the publication of the firft feven difcourfes, he received from the late Empreis of Ruffia a gold box, with a bas relievo of her Imperial Majefty in the lid, fet round with diamonds, accompanied with a note written with her own hand, containing thefe words: Pour le Chevalier Reynolds, en temoignage de contentment qui j'ai "reffentie à la lecture de fes excellens "Difcours fur la Peinture." His picture of the infant Hercules ftrangling |