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One of the most successful native-born portraitists of the first decades of the eighteenth century, Richardson was the master of Thomas Hudson and George Knapton. He owned a superb collection of Old Master drawings. His Theory of Painting published in 1715, inspired the young Joshua Reynolds to become an artist. Richardson was exceptionally fond of drawing portraits of himself and his close friends; Horace Walpole later commented that 'after his retirement from the business the good old man seems to have amused himself with writing a short poem and drawing his own or his son's portrait every day'. Richardson was an habitual self-portraitist.

National Portrait Gallery, London

London

Title

Jonathan Richardson

Date

1729

Medium

oil on canvas

Measurements

H 73.7 x W 62.9 cm

Accession number

706

Acquisition method

Purchased, 1883

Work type

Painting

National Portrait Gallery, London

St Martin’s Place, London, Greater London WC2H 0HE England

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Artist or maker

Jonathan Richardson the elder

1667–1745

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