Authority Cited: Richardson [Jonathan]
Author name and dates: Jonathan Richardson the Elder (1667-1745); Jonathan Richardson the Younger (1694-1771)
Self-portrait by J.R. the Elder
BKG Bio-tweet: Noted painter and art collector; art theory writing influenced Reynolds; SJ quotes from Life of Milton by elder J.R.
Categories (list of works cited – preliminary) [BKG Note: One (Jonathan the Elder) quote added in 1773 Dict. indicated in bold italics below. SJ later used the title below in his Lives. Thanks (2025) to Prof. Beth Young, U. of Central Florida, for disambiguation of this Richardson citation from the many Samuel Richardson cites in the 1773 Dict.]
Author name and dates: Jonathan Richardson the Elder (1667-1745); Jonathan Richardson the Younger (1694-1771)
Self-portrait by J.R. the Elder
BKG Bio-tweet: Noted painter and art collector; art theory writing influenced Reynolds; SJ quotes from Life of Milton by elder J.R.
Categories (list of works cited – preliminary) [BKG Note: One (Jonathan the Elder) quote added in 1773 Dict. indicated in bold italics below. SJ later used the title below in his Lives. Thanks (2025) to Prof. Beth Young, U. of Central Florida, for disambiguation of this Richardson citation from the many Samuel Richardson cites in the 1773 Dict.]
- Explanatory Notes and Remarks on Milton's Paradise Lost. By J. Richardson, Father and Son. With a Life of the Author, and a Discourse on the Poem by J.R. Sen.), 1734, London: printed for James, John, and Paul Knapton, at the Crown in Ludgate-Street, near the West-End of St. Paul's; latterly