Philip Reinagle

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Portrait of an extraordinarily musical dog

Philip Reinagle (* 1749 ; † November 27, 1833 in London ) was an English portrait , animal and landscape painter and draftsman .

Life

Philip Reinagle was trained at the Royal Academy of Arts from 1769 and later as an assistant to Allan Ramsay , and in this function mainly had to reproduce portraits of members of the royal family for public buildings or state gifts. In 1773 he exhibited for the first time at the Royal Academy.

After his time with Ramsay, he initially worked as a portrait painter himself, but later turned to animal and landscape painting. Approaches to this can already be seen in his depiction of the short Pole Józef Boruwłaski from 1782: In the background of the picture a wall can be seen, on which the corresponding paintings are hanging. In 1785 he turned to animal painting and after 1787 created almost exclusively landscape paintings. Even as a well-established painter, he often made copies, in his later years mainly of Dutch landscape paintings from the 17th century. Sometimes his copies were also regarded as originals. In addition to his oil paintings, he also created templates for book illustrations , such as drawings for Thornton's New Illustration of the Sexual System of Linnæus (1799–1807) and his Philosophy of Botany (1809–1810) as well as pictures for Taplin's Sportsman's Cabinet (1803). The latter were engraved by John Scott. In 1787 Reinagle was elected Associate of the Royal Academy, but he did not become a regular member until 1812.

His son Ramsay Richard Reinagle also became a painter.

Publicly owned works

A foxhunting scene by Reinagle's hand is in the South Kensington Museum; Boruwłaski's portrait was made for John Hunter and is now owned by the Royal College of Surgeons in London. The painting A Trout Stream , from around 1810, is in the National Gallery (London) . The Virginia Museum of Fine Arts owns a portrait of an extraordinarily musical Reinagle dog.

  • Józef Boruwłaski, 1782

  • Bulldog, 1790

  • Hunting scene

  • A Trout Stream, around 1810

Web links

Commons : Philip Reinagle  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ HUNTER'S dwarfs. In: Annals of the Royal College of Surgeons of England. Volume 6, Number 6, June 1950, pp. 446-449, PMID 15426178 , PMC 2238554 (free full text).
  2. ↑ http://www.oxforddnb.com/templates/olddnb.jsp?articleid=23352
  3. ↑ http://www.nationalgallery.org.uk/paintings/philip-reinagle-a-trout-stream
  4. ↑ http://thebeginwith.tumblr.com/post/391316087/philip-reinagle-1749-1833-portrait-of-an
personal data
SURNAME Reinagle, Philip
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British animal, landscape and portrait painter
DATE OF BIRTH 1749
DATE OF DEATH November 27, 1833
Place of death London