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””’Portrait of Jeffery Amherst””’ is a 1765 [[portrait painting]] by the English artist [[Joshua Reynolds]]. It depicts the [[British Army]] [[general]] [[Jeffery Amherst]].<ref>Postle p.38</ref> Amherst had enjoyed success during the [[Seven Years War]] overseeing the [[Conquest of Canada]] from 1758 to 1760. The painting commemorates this, depicting him in [[armour]] and wearing the [[Order of the Garter]] against the backdrop of the [[Saint Lawrence River]]. <ref>”Citizens and Kings: Portraits in the Age of Revolution 1760-1830”. Harry N. Abrams, 2007. p.369</ref>
””’Portrait of Jeffery Amherst””’ is a 1765 [[portrait painting]] by the English artist [[Joshua Reynolds]]. It depicts the [[British Army]] [[general]] [[Jeffery Amherst]].<ref>Postle p.38</ref> Amherst had enjoyed success during the [[Seven Years War]] overseeing the [[Conquest of Canada]] from 1758 to 1760. The painting commemorates this, depicting him in [[armour]] and wearing the [[Order of the Garter]] against the backdrop of the [[Saint Lawrence River]]. <ref>”Citizens and Kings: Portraits in the Age of Revolution 1760-1830”. Harry N. Abrams, 2007. p.369</ref>
The painting was displayed at the [[Exhibition of 1766]] held by the [[Society of Artists of Great Britain|Society of Artists]] in [[Pall Mall, London|Pall Mall]] in [[London]]. A [[printmaking|print]] was produced based on it by the Irish [[engraver]] [[James Watson (engraver)|James Watson]] the same year.<ref>https://www.npg.org.uk/collections/search/personExtended/mp00098/jeffrey-amherst-1st-baron-amherst?tab=iconography</ref> Today the work is in the [[Mead Art Museum]] of [[Amherst College]] in [[Massachusetts]]. <ref>https://www.amherst.edu/news/magazine/issue-archive/2008fall/lordjeff/node/79867</ref> Another painting of Amherst by Reynolds, produced in 1768, is now in the [[National Gallery of Canada]].
The painting was displayed at the [[Exhibition of 1766]] held by the [[Society of Artists of Great Britain|Society of Artists]] in [[Pall Mall, London|Pall Mall]] in [[London]]. A [[printmaking|print]] was produced based on it by the Irish [[engraver]] [[James Watson (engraver)|James Watson]] the same year.<ref>https://www.npg.org.uk/collections/search/personExtended/mp00098/jeffrey-amherst-1st-baron-amherst?tab=iconography</ref> Today the work is in the [[Mead Art Museum]] of [[Amherst College]] in [[Massachusetts]]. <ref>https://www.amherst.edu/news/magazine/issue-archive/2008fall/lordjeff/node/79867</ref> Another painting of Amherst by Reynolds, produced in 1768, is now in the [[National Gallery of Canada]].
