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Portrait of the Earl of Bellamont is a 1774 portrait painting by the British artist Joshua Reynolds. It depicts the Irish aristocrat and politician Charles Coote, 1st Earl of Bellomont (his name is often written as Bellamont) He is depicted at full-length in the grand manner style wearing the ceremonial robes and ostrich-plumed hat of the Order of the Bath. Leaning nonchalantly on his sword, it creates the effect of a dandy and echoes the portraits of Anthony van Dyck.

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Master Crewe as Henry VIII is a 1775 portrait painting by the British artist Joshua Reynolds. It depicts John, the three-year old son of the British politician John Crewe. The younger Crewe would grow up to become a soldier and took part in the Macartney Embassy of 1793.

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The Age of Innocence is an oil-on-canvas painting by Sir Joshua Reynolds, created in either 1785 or 1788 and measuring 765 x 638 mm. The sitter is unknown, but possibly, was Reynolds's great-niece, Theophila Gwatkin (who was three in 1785 and six in 1788), or Lady Anne Spencer (1773 to 1865), the youngest daughter of the 4th Duke of Marlborough, who would have been twelve in 1785 and fifteen in 1788. The painting was presented to the National Gallery in 1847 by Robert Vernon and has hung in the Tate Britain since 1951.

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Cupid Untying the Zone of Venus (originally entitled A Nymph and Cupid: 'The Snake in the Grass' or The Snake in the Grass, or Love unloosing the zone of Beauty; later also known as Love and Beauty and Cupid Untying the Girdle of Venus) is a painting by Joshua Reynolds. It shows Cupid untying the girdle of his mother Venus, the latter was modelled on Emma Hart. The earliest version was that exhibited in 1784 and bought by the Tate Gallery in 1871.

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Sarah Siddons as the Tragic Muse, or Mrs. Siddons as the Tragic Muse, is a 1783 to 1784 painting by English painter Sir Joshua Reynolds. The 1784 version is in the Huntington Library art museum, while a 1789 reproduction from Reynolds's studio is in the Dulwich Picture Gallery.

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Portrait of Samuel Johnson, also known as Blinking Sam, is an oil-painted portrait of English lexicographer Samuel Johnson reading, created by English artist Joshua Reynolds around 1775. The painting highlights Johnson's vision problems, which led Johnson to deride the painting and say that he would not be "Blinking Sam", as quoted in Hester Thrale's Anecdotes of the Late Samuel Johnson. The artwork has since been noted to be the "best-known" portrait of Johnson, and became an Internet meme in 2012.

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Portrait of Elizabeth Kerr is a c. 1769 oil on canvas portrait painting by the English artist Joshua Reynolds. It is now in the Museo Soumaya in Mexico City.