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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 father was a clergyman who served as the master of the grammar school in Plympton, where Reynolds attended as a student.1