SIR JOSHUA REYNOLDS. "Those who are determined to excel must go to their work, whether willing or unwilling, morning, noon, and night; and they will find it to be no play, but, on the contrary, very hard labour." Sir JOSHUA REYNOLDS. "Those great Masters, who have travelled the same road, with success, are most likely to conduct others to "Sir Joshua Reynolds, sir, is the most invulnerable man I know. The man with whom, if you should quarrel, you would find the most difficult to abuse." Dr JOHNSON. I ACKNOWLEDGMENT. DESIRE to express my very hearty thanks to all those persons who, by allowing me to see the pictures by Sir Joshua Reynolds which they possess, and by permitting me to have their treasures photographed, have aided so largely in my work on this book. My thanks are specially due to Mrs Thwaites for the privilege of photographing her famous picture of the Ladies Waldegrave; to Lady Colomb and Sir R. Edgcumbe for similar special favours with respect to Sir Joshua's letters, drawings and relics; to the Duke of Rutland, the Earl of Crewe, and Earl Spencer; the Earl of Chichester and the Earl of Northbrook; the Earl of St Germans and Lord Chesham; and to Mr Aubrey Harcourt. I am also most grateful to Sir R. Edgcumbe for kindly reading over the pages of this volume in proof, and for his valuable suggestions. To every one who has helped me, in what has been a most interesting work, I return my sincere thanks. RONALD SUTHERLAND GOWER. HAMMERFIELD, PENSHURST, May 1902. |