Portrait of Joseph Banks

Painting by Joshua Reynolds

Portrait of Joseph Banks

Artist| Joshua Reynolds
Year| 1771–1773
Type| Oil on canvas, portrait
Dimensions| 127 cm × 101.5 cm (50 in × 40.0 in)
Location| National Portrait Gallery, London

Portrait of Joseph Banks is a portrait painting by the British artist Joshua Reynolds of the botanist and President of the Royal Society Joseph Banks. Banks had gained fame for his part in the explorer James Cook's First Voyage. Although it was intended he should also go on the Second Voyage this fell through due to the excessive demands of Reynolds.[1] Instead Reynolds went on a trip to Iceland.[2]

Reynolds was President of the Royal Academy and Britain's leading portraitist of the era. Banks sat for him several times between November 1771 and March 1773. To emphasise his role in discovery (as well as the globe beside him) Reynolds holds a paper containing a Latin quote from the poet Horace translated as "Tomorrow we will sail the high seas again". It is now in the collection of the National Portrait Gallery in London.[3]

## References

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1. ^ Langford p.511
2. ^ Musgrave p.312
3. ^ https://www.npg.org.uk/collections/search/portraitExtended/mw07074/Sir-Joseph-Banks-Bt?

## Bibliography

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* Hudson, Derek. Sir Joshua Reynolds: A Personal Study. G. Bles, 1958.
* Langford, Paul. A Polite and Commercial People: England 1727–1783. Clarendon Press, 1998.
* Postle, Edward (ed.) Joshua Reynolds: The Creation of Celebrity. Harry N. Abrams, 2005.

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Paintings|

* Portrait of Robert Orme (1756)
* Portrait of Margaret Desenfans (1757)
* David Garrick Between Tragedy and Comedy (1761)
* Portrait of John Burgoyne (1766)
* Portrait of Elizabeth Kerr (1769)
* Colonel Acland and Lord Sydney: The Archers (1769–1770)
* Portrait of Joseph Banks (1773)
* Blinking Sam (c. 1775)
* Lady Cockburn and Her Three Eldest Sons (1775)
* Portrait of Omai (c. 1776)
* Lady Caroline Howard (1778)
* Lady Elizabeth Delmé and Her Children (1779)
* The Ladies Waldegrave (1780–1781)
* Thaïs (1781)
* Captain George K. H. Coussmaker (1782)
* Portrait of Banastre Tarleton (1782)
* Cupid Untying the Zone of Venus (1784)
* Sarah Siddons as the Tragic Muse (1784)
* The Age of Innocence (1785 or 1788)
* Portrait of Lord Moira (1790)

Related|

* Mary Palmer (sister)
* Elizabeth Johnson (sister)
* Frances Reynolds (sister)
* Theophila Gwatkin (niece, model)
* Wick House
* Grand Style
* Society of Artists of Great Britain
* Royal Academy of Arts
* statue
* The Club

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