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Sir Joshua Reynolds
(16 Jul 1723 - 23 Feb 1792)
English painter who was the most influential artist in the latter half of the eighteenth century. He became the first president of the Royal Academy when it was founded in 1768, and thereafter delivered annual Discourses on Art (1769-90). His 2000 paintings include portraits and landscapes.
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Science Quotes by Sir Joshua Reynolds (1)
If you have great talents, industry will improve them; if moderate abilities, industry will supply their deficiencies. Nothing is denied to well-directed labour; nothing is ever to be attained without it.
— Sir Joshua Reynolds
The Discourses of Sir Joshua Reynolds? (1842), 32.
