Sir Joshua Reynolds PRA, Portrait of Francis Hayman, R.A.

Portrait of Francis Hayman, R.A., 1756

Sir Joshua Reynolds PRA (1723 - 1792)

RA Collection: Art

Francis Hayman RA (1708-1776) and Joshua Reynolds were both born in Devonshire and had been pupils of the fashionable portrait painter Thomas Hudson. By the 1740s Hayman was painting portraits and conversation pieces as well as decorating the supper boxes of the pleasure gardens at Vauxhall Gardens with large paintings of scenes

from contemporary novels and Shakespeare's plays. Hayman also did much to promote English art by his involvement in the St. Martin's Lane Academy and as President of the Society of Artists. The Academy recognized his services by appointing him as its first Librarian in 1770.

Reynolds and Hayman knew each other well and although unfinished, this is a warmly observed portrait of a successful artist of a slightly older generation who was well-known as an easy-going, clubbable character and good committee-man.

Object details

Title
Portrait of Francis Hayman, R.A.
Artist/designer
Date
1756
Object type
Painting
Medium
Oil on canvas
Dimensions

762 mm x 635 mm

Collection
Royal Academy of Arts
Object number
03/213
Acquisition
Given by J. E. Taylor 1837

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