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The Honorable Henry Fane (1739–1802) with Inigo Jones and Charles Blair

1761–66
On view at The Met Fifth Avenue in Gallery 628
The product of five years of work, this is Reynolds’s largest group portrait. Expressing carefully calibrated social hierarchies and emotional ties, Reynolds arranged the three men in a fictional landscape setting. Reynolds would have based his composition on individual sittings in the studio, subsequently arranging the figures with such props of aristocratic leisure as the greyhound, wineglasses, and silver ewer.

Artwork Details

Object Information
  • Title: The Honorable Henry Fane (1739–1802) with Inigo Jones and Charles Blair
  • Artist: Sir Joshua Reynolds (British, Plympton 1723–1792 London)
  • Date: 1761–66
  • Medium: Oil on canvas
  • Dimensions: 100 1/4 x 142 in. (254.6 x 360.7 cm)
  • Classification: Paintings
  • Credit Line: Gift of Junius S. Morgan, 1887
  • Object Number: 87.16
  • Curatorial Department: European Paintings

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Inigo Jones Esq., The Honorable Henry Fane, and Charles Blair Esq., James Scott British, Mixed method mezzotint
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Sketchbook, Italy, Sir Joshua Reynolds British, Graphite, black chalk, pen and brown ink
Sketchbook, Italy
Sir Joshua Reynolds
1750–52
An English woman and her child, and young woman in a sixteenth century German costume, volume 4, plate 256 from "Monuments des Arts du Dessin"
Multiple artists/makers
1829
Diana (leaf in Italian Sketch Book, 1750–52), Sir Joshua Reynolds British, Graphite
Diana (leaf in Italian Sketch Book, 1750–52)
Sir Joshua Reynolds
1750–52
Diana, Viscountess Crosbie, Sir Joshua Reynolds British, Pen and brush and brown ink
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