Joshua Reynolds (1723-1792) (studio of) - Dr John Thomas (1712–1793), Bishop of Rochester - 1898P4 - Birmingham Museums Trust

Joshua Reynolds (1723–1792) was a portrait painter who dominated English artistic life in the middle and late 18th century. Through his art and teaching, he attempted to lead British painting away from the indigenous anecdotal pictures of the early 18th century toward the formal rhetoric of the continental Grand Style.