Sir Joshua ReynoldsDetail of Richard Peers Symons, M.P. (Later Baronet), 1770 - 1771Reynolds’s
Sir Joshua ReynoldsDetail of Richard Peers Symons, M.P. (Later Baronet), 1770 - 1771Reynolds’s portrayal of Symons as an inquisitive tourist in Italy, one of the most enlightened adventures a cultivated Englishman might undertake, is all artifice: there is no evidence that Symons ever left England.Collection of Cincinnati Art Museum -- source link
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