The Collected Portraits of Sir Joshua Reynolds.†
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Dan Brown, The Da Vinci Code, 2003
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This is not only an act of justice, but in our decisions upon poetry especially, may conduce in a high degree to the improvement of our own taste: for an accurate taste in poetry, and in all the other arts, as Sir Joshua Reynolds has observed, is an acquired talent, which can only be produced by thought and a long continued intercourse with the best models of composition.†
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William Wordsworth, Preface to Lyrical Ballads, 1802
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The reigning artists were the rivals Thomas Gainsborough and Joshua Reynolds and the American Ben-jamin West, who did elegant portraits and historical scenes, rather than graphic renditions of the dark side of London life.†
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David McCullough, John Adams, 2002