The Infant Academy
Sir Joshua Reynolds|Josiah Wedgwood
ca. 1785–95
Medium
Jasperware
Dimensions
Length: 5 5/8 in. (14.3 cm)
Classification
Ceramics-Pottery
Culture
British, Etruria, Staffordshire
Department
European Sculpture and Decorative Arts
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Rogers Fund, 1908
Accession Number
08.42.2
Tags
Infants
About the Artist
Sir Joshua Reynolds|Josiah Wedgwood · 1723–1792
Sir Joshua Reynolds (1723–1792) was a British painter who became the dominant figure in eighteenth-century British art and the first president of the Royal Academy of Arts. Born in Plympton, Devon, he studied under the portrait painter Thomas Hudson in London, and a transformative visit to Italy (1749–52) — where he studied the Old Masters, particularly the Venetian colorists and Michelangelo — sh...