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Which Flemish painter influenced Joshua Reynolds's group portrait of the Eliot family?
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Joshua Reynolds
Joshua Reynolds, detail of self-portrait, oil on panel, 1780; in the Royal Academy of Arts, London.
Joshua Reynolds's group portrait of the Eliot family (c. 1746/47) was influenced by the Flemish Baroque painter Sir Anthony Van Dyck. Specifically, Reynolds studied Van Dyck’s large-scale portrait of the Pembroke family (1634–35) when composing his own work.1