• In portraits, the grace and, we may add, the likeness consists more in taking the general air than in observing the exact similitude of every feature.

    Joshua Reynolds: In portraits, the grace and, we may add, the likeness consists more in taking the general air than in observing the exact similitude of every feature.
    Sir Joshua Reynolds, Edmond Malone (1809). “The Works of Sir Joshua Reynolds”, p.83