Dr. Johnson

Title: Dr. Johnson
Actual Title: Doctor Samuel Johnson(Tate) or Samuel Johnson (NPG)
Artist: Sir Joshua Reynolds
Status: P. R. A.
Type: oil on canvas
Size (HxW, mm): 756 × 622 mm (tate) or 1276 mm x 1016 mm (npg)
Current Exhibition Location: Two possible paintings: Tate N00887 OR NPG 1597
Lent By: the Earl of Rosebery
Catalog Number: 80
Catalog Page: 13
Catalog Description: Samuel Johnson is one of the great names in English literary history ; but his celebrity depends not so much on his Dictionary or other works, as on the record of his life and table talk by Boswell. The portraits of him show his rough exterior; but as Goldsmith said of him, he had "nothing of the bear but his skin," and he was one of the kindest as well as the most celebrated men of his time.