Portrait of the Ladies Amabel and Mary Jemima Yorke

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Artist
Joshua Reynolds
Year
c. 1761
Medium
Oil on canvas
CC0 Cleveland Museum of Art

Portrait of the Ladies Amabel and Mary Jemima Yorke by Sir Joshua Reynolds depicts two sisters in an intimate double portrait. Reynolds, the first president of the Royal Academy, was the most celebrated portrait painter of eighteenth-century England, known for his grand manner style that elevated portraiture to the level of history painting.