Hand-painted in oil
About this Artwork
The British version of the same machine
The mounted portrait of a titled soldier was not a Continental speciality. British sitters used it on the same terms and at the same scale, and this entry is one of them: the title gives a marquess, the record files male portraiture together with Animal Art > Horse, and no battle, hunt or journey is attached. The animal is present to do what it does in every picture of this class — raise the sitter, absorb the weight, and be visibly under control while the man looks untroubled by any of it.
What the record holds
The date of creation is 1766 and the location is the John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art in Sarasota, Florida. The dimensions are 247.5 x 210.2 cm. Rococo is the style term recorded and British the nationality attached to the painter. The categories are unusually short for this register — portraiture, male portraiture, Animal Art and Animal Art > Horse, with nothing else — and the measured colour family of the image is yellow.
Why a short category list is worth noticing
Many entries in this catalogue carry eight or ten headings, several of which the title does not support. A record this bare is easier to trust: there is less in it that has to be argued away before the reader gets to the picture.
Sources
7 references- Reynolds, Richard Joshua — Getty ULAN
American businessman and manufacturer, 1850-1918
- Joshua Reynolds — Wikipedia
Sir Joshua Reynolds (16 July 1723 – 23 February 1792) was an English painter who specialised in portraits. The art critic John Russell called him one of the major European painters of the 18th century, while Lucy Peltz says he was "the lead
- Reynolds, Joshua — Getty ULAN
English painter, collector, 1723-1792
- John Manners, Marquess of Granby — Wikidata
description: painting by Joshua Reynolds; inception: 1766-01-01; dimensions: 82.3125 × 97 cm; collection: John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art
- emuseum.ringling.org — record for "John Manners, Marquess of Granby"
Primary source record for this work (emuseum.ringling.org).
- John Manners, Marquess of Granby — Wikipedia
Lieutenant-General John Manners, Marquess of Granby (2 January 1721 – 18 October 1770) was a British Army officer and politician. The eldest son of John Manners, 3rd Duke of Rutland, as he did not outlive his father and inherit the dukedom,
- Sir Joshua Reynolds (1723-92) - John Manners, Marquess of Granby (1721-70) - RCIN 405894 - Royal Collection — Wikimedia Commons
High-resolution image of the work, hosted on Wikimedia Commons.
