Samuel William Reynolds
(1773-1835), Mezzotint engraver and painterSitter in 3 portraits
Artist associated with 639 portraits
Reynolds studied art in London under Charles Howard Hodges and John Raphael Smith. His first engraved portrait, a study of George IV when still Prince of Wales, is dated 1794. Reynolds began exhibiting at the Royal Academy in 1797 and continued to show his work there until 1827. His work was also greatly admired by the French and was exhibited at the Paris Salons from 1810. Reynolds was appointed portrait engraver to George IV in 1820, after which he produced a set of over 350 small mezzotints after Sir Joshua Reynolds's portraits, issued in four volumes between 1821 and 1826. His son, Samuel William Reynolds, was also a portraitist.
Francis Russell, Marquess of Tavistock
by Samuel William Reynolds, after Sir Joshua Reynolds
mezzotint, published 1820
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by Samuel William Reynolds
mezzotint, published 24 February 1820
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by and published by Samuel William Reynolds
mezzotint, published 24 October 1821
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by Samuel William Reynolds, after Thomas Phillips
mezzotint, published 1822
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by Samuel William Reynolds, published by and after James Lonsdale
mezzotint, published 7 March 1822
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by Samuel William Reynolds, published by and after Thomas Phillips
mezzotint, published 1822 (1821)
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by Samuel William Reynolds, after Henry Wyatt
mezzotint, published 1826
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Queen Adelaide (Princess Adelaide of Saxe-Meiningen)
by Samuel William Reynolds, after Sir William Beechey
stipple, mezzotint and etching, 1831
On display at Boston Manor House, Brentford
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by Samuel William Reynolds, after Sir Joshua Reynolds
mezzotint, published 1834 (1771-1772)
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John Manners, Marquess of Granby
by Samuel William Reynolds, after Sir Joshua Reynolds
mezzotint, published 1834
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Elizabeth Herbert (née Beauclerk), Countess of Pembroke ('Una')
by Samuel William Reynolds, after Sir Joshua Reynolds
mezzotint, published 1835
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by Samuel William Reynolds, after Sir Joshua Reynolds
mezzotint, published 1836 (1760)
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by Samuel William Reynolds, after Sir Joshua Reynolds
mezzotint, published 1836 (1760)
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by Samuel William Reynolds, published by Hodgson & Graves, after Sir Joshua Reynolds
mezzotint, published 1836 (1760)
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by Samuel William Reynolds, published by Thomas Agnew, after Benjamin Rawlinson Faulkner
mezzotint, published 5 August 1839
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by Samuel William Reynolds, published by Robert Sheppard, after Sir Joshua Reynolds
mezzotint, published 1 May 1841
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Charles Shaw-Lefevre, Viscount Eversley
by Samuel William Reynolds, published by Charles Augustus Mornewick Jr, after Sir Martin Archer Shee
mezzotint, 1843
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by Samuel William Reynolds, published by Paul and Dominic Colnaghi & Co, after Sir Francis Grant
mixed-method engraving, published 1850
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