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Joshua Reynolds
Joshua Reynolds, detail of self-portrait, oil on panel, 1780; in the Royal Academy of Arts, London.
In October 1740, Joshua Reynolds was bound as an apprentice in London to the portrait painter Thomas Hudson. Hudson was a conventional portraitist who had himself been a pupil of Jonathan Richardson. Reynolds remained in this apprenticeship for four years before returning to Devon in 1743.12