Sir Joshua Reynolds;: A collection of fifteen pictures and a portrait of the painter,

by Estelle May Hurll

o Illustrated with 15 black and white images o Enhanced with a picture gallery of images in color. Enjoy and appreciate Reynold's greatest works. Estelle Hurll presented Sir Joshua Reynold's works with a collection of 15 pictures (in black and white) and a portrait of the painter. She wrote an informative Introduction and interesting Interpretation of each work. An eighteenth-century painter, Reynolds specialized in portraits which idealized his subjects. Black and white pictures included in this book Penelope Boothby, Master Crewe as Henry VIII, Lady Cockburn and Her Children, Miss Bowles, Master Bunbury, Mrs. Siddons as the Tragic Muse, Angels' Heads, The Duchesse of Devonshire and Her Child, Hope, Lord Heathfield, Mrs. Payne-Gallwey and Her Child, Cupid As Link Boy, The Hon. Anne Bingham, The Strawberry Girl, Dr. Samuel Johnson, The Portrait of Reynolds. Also included is a pictue gallery of paintinngs in color. Estelle Hurll wrote a collection of analyses of art, all of which can be found on Kindle, each with an additonal picture gallery, and published by Amity EBooks. Those Child-Life in Art, Correggio, Greek Sculpture, Landseer, The Madonna, Michelangelo, Millet, Raphael, Rembrandt, Reynolds, Titian, Tuscan Sculpture, and Van Dyke.

Unknown Binding

About the author

Estelle May Hurll (1863–1924), a student of aesthetics, wrote a series of popular aesthetic analyses of art in the early twentieth century.

Hurll was born 25 July 1863 in New Bedford, Massachusetts, daughter of Charles W. and Sarah Hurll. She attended Wellesley College, graduating in 1882. From 1884 to 1891 she taught ethics at Wellesley. Hurll received her A.M. from Wellesley in 1892. In earning her degree, Hurll wrote Wellesley's first master's thesis in philosophy under Mary Whiton Calkins; her thesis was titled "The Fundamental Reality of the Aesthetic." After earning her degree, Hurll engaged in a short career writing introductions and interpretations of art, but these activities ceased before she married John Chambers Hurll on 29 June 1908.