The Honorable Henry Fane (1739–1802) with Inigo Jones and Charles Blair

Sir Joshua Reynolds

1761–66 · Oil on canvas · European Paintings

The product of five years of work, this is Reynolds’s largest group portrait. Expressing carefully calibrated social hierarchies and emotional ties, Reynolds arranged the three men in a fictional landscape setting. Reynolds would have based his composition on individual sittings in the studio, subsequently arranging the figures with such props of aristocratic leisure as the greyhound, wineglasses, and silver ewer.

Artist

Sir Joshua Reynolds

Date

1761–66

Medium

Oil on canvas

Department

European Paintings

Credit line

Gift of Junius S. Morgan, 1887