The following is a list of the principal historical pic tures executed by Sir Joshua Reynolds:—Hope nursing Love ; Venus chastising Cupid for having learned to cast accounts; Count Ugolino in the Dungeon, which is one of his best works ; the Calling of Samuel; Ari adne ; a Captain of Banditti ; Beggar Boy ; a Lady in the character of St. Agnes ; Thais ; Dionysius the Areopagite ; an Infant Jupiter ; Master Crewe in the character of Henry VIII.; the Death of Dido ; a Child asleep ; Cupid sleeping ; Covent Garden Cupid; Cu pid in the Clouds; Cupids painting ; Boy laughing; Master Herbert in the character of Bacchus; Hebe; Miss Meyer in the character of Hebe ; Madonna, a head ; the Black-guard Mercury ; a Little Boy (Sa muel) praying ; an Old Man reading ; Love loosing the Zone of Beauty; the Children in the Wood ; Cleo patra dissolving the Pearl; Garrick in the character of Kitely ; Garrick between Tragedy and Comedy ; Mrs. Abingdon in the character of Comedy ; a Child sur rounded by Guardian Angels ; Miss Beauclerc in the character of Spencer's Una; Resignation ; the Duchess of Manchester in the character of Diana ; Lady Blake in the character of Juno; Mrs. Sheridan in the character
of St. Cecilia; Edwin, from Beattie's Minstrel ; the Nativity ; Four Cardinal Virtues, and Faith, Hope, and Charity, for the window of New College Chapel, Oxford; the Studious Boy; a Bacchante.; a Daughter of Lord W. Gordon as an Angel ; the Holy Family; the Cottagers, from Thomson; the Vestal ; the Care ful Shepherdess ; a Gipsy telling Fortunes; the Infant Hercules strangling the Serpent; the Mouse-trap.Girl; Venus; Cornelia and her Children ; the Bird ; Melan choly ; Mrs. Siddons in Tragedy ; Head of Lear ; Mrs. Talmash in the character of Miranda, with Pros pero and Caliban ; Rohn Goodfellow ; Death of Car dinal Beaufort ; Macbeth with the Caldron of the Witches.
For farther information respecting this eminent painter, see Malone's life of him, prefixed to his edi tion of Sir Joshua's works, Northcotc's Memoirs of Sir Joshua Reynolds, Pilkington's Dictionary, Supplement, and Chalmers's Biographical Dictionary, VOL xxvi. p. 152.