Tour: British and American Grand Manner Portraits of the 1700s

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Eighteenth-century British artists and patrons used the terms "Grand Manner" or "Great Style" to describe paintings that utilized visual metaphors. By extension, the Grand Manner came to include portraiture—especially at full length and in life size—accompanied by settings and accessories that conveyed the dignified status of the sitters. Classical architecture, for instance, signified one's civilized demeanor, whole woodland glens implied natural sincerity.

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Captions

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1	Sir Joshua Reynolds, John Musters, 1777-c. 1780
2	Thomas Gainsborough, Master John Heathcote, c. 1771/1772
3	John Singleton Copley, The Copley Family, 1776/1777
4	Thomas Gainsborough, Mrs. Richard Brinsley Sheridan, 1785-1787
5	John Hoppner, The Hoppner Children, 1791
6	John Hoppner, The Frankland Sisters, 1795
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7	Sir Thomas Lawrence, Lady Mary Templetown and Her Eldest Son, 1802
8	Sir Henry Raeburn, The Binning Children, probably c. 1811
9	Sir Joshua Reynolds, Lady Elizabeth Delmé and Her Children, 1777-1779
10	George Romney, Miss Juliana Willoughby, 1781-1783
11	George Romney, Mrs. Thomas Scott Jackson, c. 1770/1773
12	Gilbert Stuart, The Skater (Portrait of William Grant), 1782