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The Breddil Family by Joshua Reynolds

The Breddil Family by Joshua Reynolds

From the official portraits of Reynolds’ brush, English aristocrats and high officials look at the viewer. They are written by a master in confident, majestic poses. The exotic dignity of these portraits cannot be canceled even by the exotic details and costumes that Reynolds used from time to time.

So, “Portrait of Captain John Foote in Indian Costume”, 1765 does not look “humorous” at all. And the turban, and the richly embroidered oriental robe, surprisingly go to this stand-off person who knows his own worth. And if you remember that John Foote served in the West Indian Company, then this outfit at all ceases to seem “fancy”.

There were also very expressive female portraits of Reynolds. In each of his models, he managed to catch individual, “non-common” features, which he diligently emphasized, putting the portrayed women not in fashionable outfits, but in simple white dresses, “not obscuring” their image. The least successful master, perhaps, family portraits. Thus, the composition of the painting “The Breddil Family” seems very unnatural and strained.

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