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Joshua Reynolds
Joshua Reynolds, detail of self-portrait, oil on panel, 1780; in the Royal Academy of Arts, London.
The British painter Joshua Reynolds stayed in Rome for two years. During this time, he dedicated himself to studying the masterpieces of Italian painting and ancient Greco-Roman sculpture, experiences that profoundly influenced his artistic style and his later Discourses on art.1