meme were both painted by Joshua Reynolds, who, at the height of his ... my professor talked about samuel johnson in his lecture and i couldn't stop thinking about this meme pic.twitter.com ...

The Club or, The Literary Club, was founded in February 1764 by the artist Sir Joshua Reynolds, who we will look at in more depth now, and the essayist Samuel Johnson with Edmund Burke, the ...

Whoever is to blame for it, Samuel Johnson's books are unread ... and someone who saw a portrait of him by Joshua Reynolds asked if Johnson was blind. He mouthed, muttered, tapped his feet ...

Joshua Reynolds’ Portrait of Omai will be acquired ... (Reynolds’ “Sarah (Kemble) Siddons as the Tragic Muse,” “Portrait of Samuel Johnson, ‘Blinking Sam’” and “Diana (Sackville ...

Johnson’s dictionary appeared in 1755 and ... figures of the age as portrait painter and Royal Academy founder Joshua Reynolds, actor David Garrick, politician Edmund Burke and playwright ...

Samuel Johnson was so funny that some of the ... and I remember when Sir Joshua Reynolds at my house reminded him that he had drank eleven cups, he replied — ‘Sir, I did not count your glasses ...

The black man in Sir Joshua Reynolds' painting, a noble, almost epic figure silhouetted against a dramatic sky, is widely considered to be Francis Barber, Samuel Johnson's servant and friend.

James Boswell, Samuel Johnson's famous biographer ... The resultant scars persisted all his life and can be seen in one of Joshua Reynolds' portraits. He was pretty lucky, as in the 18th century ...