Personification of Painting at an Easel Portraying Sir Joshua Reynolds [reverse]

John Kirk

National Gallery of Art

The sculpture is a bronze medallion with an engraved design. The central subject shows a person seated on a chair with an easel in front of them, engaged in painting another human figure on the easel's canvas. The medallion is circular with inscriptions around the border reading "PRESIDENT OF THE ROYAL ACADEMY" at the top and "MDCCLXXIII" at the bottom. The piece is uniformly bronze in color and depicts a three-dimensional scene in relief style.