From Heroic to Romantic: Reynolds’s Captain the Honourable Augustus Keppel (1753) and its Legacy

• Published in: Interfaces (Dijon. En ligne) Vol. 51
• Main Author: Ibata, Hélène
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Interfaces 20.07.2024; Université de Bourgogne
• Subjects: Cook (James); Keppel (Augustus); Lord Byron; Millais (John Everett); naval portrait; Reynolds (Joshua); naval portrait; Reynolds (Joshua); portrait naval; portrait romantique; romantic portrait; Millais (John Everett); Keppel (Augustus); Lord Byron; heroic portrait; Cook (James); portrait héroïque

Joshua Reynolds’s second portrait of Augustus Keppel (1752-53) – which masterfully blended portrait and history painting, as well as heroic and pre-Romantic mood – contributed to the construction of a semantically fluid pictorial identity, a type of dominant masculinity that could assume a multiplic...