Sir Joshua Reynolds: A Collection of Fifteen Pictures and a Portrait of the Painter with Introduction and Interpretation

by Estelle May Hurll

"Sir Joshua A Collection of Fifteen Pictures and a Portrait of the Painter with Introduction and Interpretation" by Estelle M. HurllSir Joshua Reynolds was an English painter, specializing in portraits. John Russell said he was one of the major European painters of the 18th century. He promoted the "Grand Style" in painting which depended on the idealization of the imperfect. In this book, Hurll analyzes the artist's skills and symbolism through a selection of his works. Accompanied by the portraits in question, this book is a valuable tool for art and art history students.

66 pages, Kindle Edition

Published November 26, 2019

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.