Philip Reinagle

Philip Reinagle was an English artist who initially made portraits and later also animal and landscape paintings. He was the son of a musician with Hungarian roots. In 1763 the artist came to London. There he began his studies at the Royal Academy of Arts three years later. He completed his practical training as assistant to the famous Scottish portrait painter at Allan Ramsay . During this time Philip Reinagle painted mainly paintings of members of the British royal family. He exhibited his own works for the first time in the halls of the Royal Academy in 1773. Reinagle's career as an artist began as a portrait painter. Later he extended his artistic focus to animal and landscape painting. The always same, monotonous work on the royal portraits increasingly bored him. He developed a real aversion to portrait painting. So another artistic focus had to be found. In 1787 he devoted himself almost exclusively to landscape painting.