Family of Samuel Reynolds and Theophila Potter

Husband: Samuel Reynolds

  • Name:

  • Samuel Reynolds

  • Sex:

  • Male

  • Father:

  • -

  • Mother:

  • -

  • Note (shared):

  • Master of Plympton Grammar School

  • Birth:

  • 30 Nov 1681

  •  

  • Title:

  •  

  • Reverend

  • Occupation:

  •  

  • -; Master of Plympton Grammar School

  • Death:

  • 25 Dec 1745 (age 64)

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Wife: Theophila Potter

  • Name:

  • Theophila Potter

  • Sex:

  • Female

  • Father:

  • -

  • Mother:

  • -

  • Birth:

  • 4 Jun 1688

  • Bishops Nympton, Devon

  • Death:

  • 1756 (age 67-68)

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Child 1: Humphrey Reynolds

  • Name:

  • Humphrey Reynolds

  • Sex:

  • Male

  • Birth:

  • 2 Feb 1712/13

  • Great Torrington, Devon

  • Baptism:

  • 24 Feb 1712/13 (age 0)

  • Devon

  • Death:

  • 1741 (age 27-28)

  • At sea (on voyage from India)

Child 2: Robert Reynolds

  • Name:

  • Robert Reynolds

  • Sex:

  • Male

  • Birth:

  • 29 May 1714

  • Great Torrington, Devon

  • Baptism:

  • 2 Jun 1714 (age 0)

  • Devon

  • Death:

  • 30 Jun 1787 (age 73)

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Child 3: Mary Reynolds

Child 4: Anne Reynolds

  • Name:

  • Anne Reynolds

  • Sex:

  • Female

  • Birth:

  • 3 Mar 1717/18

  • Plympton, Devon

  • Death:

  • 7 Apr 1720 (age 2)

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Child 5: Jane Reynolds

  • Name:

  • Jane Reynolds

  • Sex:

  • Female

  • Birth:

  • 14 Jan 1719/20

  • Plympton, Devon

  • Death:

  • 1766 (age 45-46)

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Child 6: Elizabeth Reynolds

  • Name:

  • Elizabeth Reynolds

  • Sex:

  • Female

  • Spouse:

  • William Johnson (c. 1728-1795)

  • Birth:

  • 8 Jul 1721

  • Plympton, Devon

  • Death:

  • 14 May 1800 (age 78)

  • Great Torrington, Devon

Child 7: Joshua Reynolds

  • Name:

  • Joshua Reynolds

  • Sex:

  • Male

  • Note (shared):

  • Sir Joshua Reynolds (July 16, 1723 to February 23, 1792) was the most important and influential of 18th century English painters, specialising in portraits and promoting the "Grand Style" in painting which depended on idealization of the imperfect. He was one of the founders (with Thomas Gainsborough) and first President of the Royal Academy. George III appreciated his merits and knighted him in 1769.

    Reynolds was born in Plympton St Maurice, Devon, on 16 July 1723, and apprenticed in 1740 to the fashionable portrait painter Thomas Hudson, with whom he remained until 1743. From 1749 to 1752, he spent over two years in Italy, where he studied the Old Masters and acquired a taste for the "Grand Style". From 1753 he lived and worked in London. He became a close friend of Dr Johnson, Oliver Goldsmith, Edmund Burke, Henry Thrale, David Garrick and fellow artist Angelica Kauffmann. He was one of the earliest members of the Royal Society of Arts.

    Reynolds was a brilliant academic. His lectures (Discourses) on art, delivered at the Royal Academy between 1769 and 1790, are remembered for their sensitivity and perception. In 1789 he lost the sight of his left eye, and on 23 February 1792 he died in his house in Leicester Fields, London. He was buried in St. Paul's Cathedral.

    Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joshua_Reynolds

  • Birth:

  • 16 Jul 1723

  • Plympton Earls, Devon

  • Title:

  •  

  • Sir

  • Death:

  • 23 Feb 1792 (age 68)

  • London

  • Burial:

  • 1792

  • St. Paul's Cathedral, London

Child 8: Theophila Reynolds

  • Name:

  • Theophila Reynolds

  • Sex:

  • Female

  • Birth:

  • 14 Aug 1725

  • Plympton, Devon

  • Death:

  • 8 Nov 1726 (age 1)

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Child 9: Samuel Reynolds

  • Name:

  • Samuel Reynolds

  • Sex:

  • Male

  • Birth:

  • 7 Aug 1727

  • Plympton, Devon

  • Death:

  • 25 Dec 1746 (age 19)

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Child 10: Fanny Reynolds

  • Name:

  • Fanny Reynolds

  • Sex:

  • Female

  • Birth:

  • 10 May 1729

  • Plympton, Devon

  • Death:

  • 1808 (age 78-79)

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Child 11: Martyn Reynolds

  • Name:

  • Martyn Reynolds

  • Sex:

  • Male

  • Birth:

  • 5 Jul 1731

  • Plympton, Devon

  • Death:

  • 1741 (age 9-10)

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Note on Husband: Samuel Reynolds - shared note

Master of Plympton Grammar School

Note on Child 7: Joshua Reynolds - shared note

Sir Joshua Reynolds (July 16, 1723 to February 23, 1792) was the most important and influential of 18th century English painters, specialising in portraits and promoting the "Grand Style" in painting which depended on idealization of the imperfect. He was one of the founders (with Thomas Gainsborough) and first President of the Royal Academy. George III appreciated his merits and knighted him in 1769.

Reynolds was born in Plympton St Maurice, Devon, on 16 July 1723, and apprenticed in 1740 to the fashionable portrait painter Thomas Hudson, with whom he remained until 1743. From 1749 to 1752, he spent over two years in Italy, where he studied the Old Masters and acquired a taste for the "Grand Style". From 1753 he lived and worked in London. He became a close friend of Dr Johnson, Oliver Goldsmith, Edmund Burke, Henry Thrale, David Garrick and fellow artist Angelica Kauffmann. He was one of the earliest members of the Royal Society of Arts.

Reynolds was a brilliant academic. His lectures (Discourses) on art, delivered at the Royal Academy between 1769 and 1790, are remembered for their sensitivity and perception. In 1789 he lost the sight of his left eye, and on 23 February 1792 he died in his house in Leicester Fields, London. He was buried in St. Paul's Cathedral.

Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joshua_Reynolds