A defence of allegorical society portraiture by Reynolds -- bibliographical materials

Hugh Witemeyer, Professor of English, University of New Mexico

Note 82 to Chapter 6 of the author's George Eliot and the Visual Arts, which Yale University Press published in a 1979. It has been included in the Victorian web with the kind permission of the author, who of course retains copyright.

For a spirited defense of Reynolds's fancy portraits, see Robert E. Moore, "Reynolds and the Art of Characterization," in Studies in Criticism and Aesthetics, 1660-1800, ed. Howard Anderson and John S. Shea (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1967), pp. 336-37.

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