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Frances Reynolds

(b. May 10, 1729, Plympton Erle, Plympton, Plymouth, Devon – d. Nov. 1, 1807, Queen Square, Westminster, London )

Gender: F

Frances Reynolds (1729-1807), painter, art critic, and member of the Bluestocking circle. Frances, like her brother Sir Joshua Reynolds, was a prolific portraitist of elite London society. She painted portraits of Elizabeth Montagu in 1778 and Hannah More in 1780. She was also the author of Enquiry Concerning the Principles of Taste and the Origin of our Ideas of Beauty &c (1785), a work on aesthetics dedicated to Montagu, which argued for the primacy of 'virtue, honour, and ornament' in portraiture, essentially articulating a manifesto for Bluestocking art parallel to Hannah More's poetic manifesto The Bas Bleu (1787)

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  • Frances Reynolds

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Mentioned in 2 letters

Title EMCO ID
Letter from Elizabeth Montagu to James Beattie 2193
Letter from Elizabeth Montagu to James Beattie 2195

Recipient of 18 letters

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Title Sent Received EMCO ID
Letter from Elizabeth Montagu to Unknown 0/0/0 1924
Letter from Elizabeth Montagu to Frances Reynolds 0/0/0 1925
Letter from Elizabeth Montagu to Frances Reynolds 0/0/0 1926
Letter from Elizabeth Montagu to Frances Reynolds 0/0/0 1927
Letter from Elizabeth Montagu to Frances Reynolds 16/0/0 1928
Letter from Elizabeth Montagu to Frances Reynolds 0/0/0 1929
Letter from Elizabeth Montagu to Frances Reynolds 0/0/0 1930
Letter from Elizabeth Montagu to Frances Reynolds 19/0/1781 1931
Letter from Elizabeth Montagu to Frances Reynolds 0/0/1771 1932
Letter from Elizabeth Montagu to Frances Reynolds 0/7/1785 1933
Letter from Elizabeth Montagu to Frances Reynolds 0/3/1782 1934
Letter from Elizabeth Montagu to Frances Reynolds 3/12/0 1935
Letter from Elizabeth Montagu to Frances Reynolds 0/0/0 1936
Letter from Elizabeth Montagu to Frances Reynolds July 28, 1783 1937
Sotheby's Catalogue extracts between Elizabeth Montagu and Frances Reynolds 0/0/0 2407
Sotheby's Catalogue extracts between Elizabeth Montagu and Frances Reynolds 0/0/0 2408
Letter from Elizabeth Montagu to Frances Reynolds 0/0/0 3435
Letter from Elizabeth Montagu to [Frances] Reynolds 0/0/0 3506

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