Sources, Archives, Likenesses, and Estimated Wealth
C. R. Leslie and T. Taylor, Life and times of Sir Joshua Reynolds, 2 vols. (1865) · J. Northcote, The life of Sir Joshua Reynolds, 2nd edn, 2 vols. (1818) · J. Northcote, Memoirs of Sir Joshua Reynolds, knt. (1813–15) · The works of Sir Joshua Reynolds, ed. E. Malone, 3 vols. (1798) · D. Hudson, Sir Joshua Reynolds: a personal study (1958) · D. Mannings, Sir Joshua Reynolds: a complete catalogue of his oil paintings, 2 vols. (2000) [the subject pictures catalogued by M. Postle; incl. complete list of works and a comprehensive bibliography] · The letters of Sir Joshua Reynolds, ed. J. Ingamells and J. Edgcumbe (2000) · N. Penny, ed., Reynolds (1986) [exhibition catalogue, RA, 16 Jan – 31 March 1986] · F. W. Hilles, The literary career of Sir Joshua Reynolds (1936) · F. W. Hilles, Portraits, character sketches of Oliver Goldsmith, Samuel Johnson, and David Garrick, together with other MSS of Reynolds recently discovered among the private papers of James Boswell (1952) · J. Reynolds, Discourses on art, ed. R. R. Wark, 2nd edn (1975) · J. Reynolds, Discourses on art, ed. P. Rogers (1992) · M. Postle, Sir Joshua Reynolds: the subject pictures (1995) · Sir Joshua Reynolds: a journey to Flanders and Holland, ed. H. Mount (1996) · R. Prochno, Joshua Reynolds(1990) · E. K. Waterhouse, Reynolds (1941) · E. K. Waterhouse, Reynolds (1973) · A. Graves and W. V. Cronin, A history of the works of Sir Joshua Reynolds, 4 vols. (1899–1901) · D. Mannings, Sir Joshua Reynolds PRA, 1723–92 (1992) · J. Barrell, The political theory of painting from Reynolds to Hazlitt (1986) · T. Clifford, A. Griffiths, and M. Royalton Kisch, Gainsborough and Reynolds in the British Museum (1978) · W. Cotton, Sir Joshua Reynolds and his works (1856) · Sir Joshua Reynolds's notes and observations on pictures, ed. W. Cotton (1859) · L. Herrmann, ‘The drawings by Sir Joshua Reynolds in the Herschel album’, Burlington Magazine, 110 (1968), 650–58 · M. Cormack, ed., ‘The ledgers of Sir Joshua Reynolds’, Walpole Society, 62 (1968–70), 105–69 · E. W. Waterhouse, ed., ‘Reynolds's “Sitter book” for 1755’, Walpole Society, 61 (1966–8), 112–64 · E. H. Gombrich, ‘Reynolds's theory and practice of imitation’, Burlington Magazine, 80 (1942), 40–45 · C. Mitchell, ‘Three phases of Reynolds's method’, Burlington Magazine, 80 (1942), 35–40 · D. Mannings, ‘The sources and development of Reynolds's pre-Italian style’, Burlington Magazine, 117 (1975), 212–22 · M. Postle, ‘Patriarchs, prophets and paviours: Reynolds's images of old age`’, Burlington Magazine, 130 (1988), 735–44 · G. Perini, ‘Sir Joshua Reynolds and Italian art and art literature’, Journal of the Warburg and Courtauld Institutes, 51 (1988), 141–68 · F. W. Hilles, ‘Sir Joshua and the Empress Catherine’, 18th-Century studies in honor of Donald F. Hyde, ed. W. H. Bond (1970) · R. R. Wark, Sir Joshua Reynolds's ‘Portrait of Mrs Siddons as the tragic muse’ (1965) · D. Mannings, ‘Reynolds, Garrick and the choice of Hercules’, 18th-Century Studies, 7 (1984), 259–83 · M. Postle, ‘Reynolds, Shaftesbury, Van Dyck and Dobson: sources for Garrick between Tragedy and Comedy’, Apollo, 132 (1990), 306–11 · D. Mannings, ‘Reynolds's oil sketches’, Burlington Magazine, 133 (1991), 491–8 · F. J. P. Broun, ‘Sir Joshua Reynolds's collection of paintings’, PhD diss., Princeton University, 1987 · S. M. Radcliffe, ed., Sir Joshua's nephew, being letters written 1769–1778 (1930) · parish register, Devon, Plympton St Maurice, 30 July 1723 [baptism] · W. T. Whitley,Artists and their friends in England, 1700–1799, 2 vols. (1928) · S. Gwynn, Memorials of an eighteenth century painter, James Northcote (1898) · D. Hudson, Sir Joshua Reynolds: a personal study (1958) · Vertue, Note books · Farington, Diary · Walpole, Corr. · Boswell, Life · The manuscripts and correspondence of James, first earl of Charlemont, 2 vols., HMC, 28 (1891–4) · I. McIntyre, Joshua Reynolds: the life and times of the first president of the Royal Academy (2003)
Archives
BL, travel journal, Egerton MS 2165 · BM, sketchbooks with MS notes · FM Cam., letters, ledgers, and MS of Adaptation of talents · Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, sketchbooks with MS notes · Plymouth City Museum and Art Gallery, sitters book and corresp. · RA, pocket books and MSS · Sir John Soane's Museum, London, sketchbooks with MS notes · Wilts. & Swindon HC, receipted account and voucher for paintings for the earl of Pembroke · Yale U., sketchbooks with MS notes · Yale U., Beinecke L., notes on art | Bod., transcript of A printer's journal by E. Malone · Sheff. Arch., letters to Edmund Burke · Yale U. CBA, corresp. and papers · Yale U., Beinecke L., corresp. with James Boswell and papers
Likenesses
J. Reynolds, three self-portraits, oils, c.1749–1779, NPG, RA · J. Reynolds, four self-portraits, oils, c.1753–1775, Tate collection · J. Reynolds, self-portrait, chalk drawing, 1760, BM · J. Reynolds, self-portrait, oils, c.1766–1773, Society of Dilettanti, Brooks's Club, London · N. Dance, double portrait, pencil drawing, c.1767 (with Angelica Kauffman), Harewood House, Leeds, West Yorkshire · A. Kauffman, oils, 1767, Saltram House, Devon · J. Reynolds, self-portrait, oils, 1769, Woburn Abbey, Bedfordshire · J. Reynolds, self-portrait, oils, 1775, Uffizi Gallery, Florence · G. Ceracchi, marble bust, 1778, RA · J. Reynolds, self-portrait, c.1780, RA [see illus.] · J. F. Rigaud, group portrait, oils, 1782, NPG · J. Reynolds, self-portrait, chalk, c.1784, Tate collection · J. Reynolds, self-portrait, oils, c.1788, Royal Collection · J. Flaxman, statue, 1813, St Paul's Cathedral, London · attrib. J. Flaxman, Wedgwood medallion, Nottingham Museum and Art Gallery · O. Humphry, miniature, Corsham Court, Wiltshire · G. Stuart, oils, National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC · J. Zoffany, group portrait, oils (The academicians of the Royal Academy, 1772), Royal Collection
Wealth at death
approx. £100,000: Leslie and Taylor, Life and times, 2.635 and n. 2