• Name: Reynolds, Sir Joshua
• Gender: Male
• Birth Date: 16  July  1723
• Death Date: 23  February  1792
• Occupation: portrait and history painter
• Occupation: art theorist

Godwin records his death.

On 8 May 1788 - Godwin records:
'Dinner at Cadel's on Gibbon's birth day and day of publication, Sheffield, Fullaston, Reynolds, Gillies, Kippis.'
Given the social context, this has been taken as a reference to Joshua Reynolds, artist. It is not clear whether Godwin attends this dinner or not but it seems unlikely that he did: he does not record meeting Joshua Reynolds in his 1796 list and there is no evidence from biography or letters that the two men were acquainted ( see Derek Hudson, Sir Joshua Reynolds: A Personal Study; Frederick Whiley Hilles (ed), Letters of Sir Joshua Reynolds ; James Northcote, Life of Sir Joshua Reynolds, vol II ); the mention of the dinner appears in smaller writing and looks to have been added in after he wrote the original part of the day's entry yet if Godwin had attended the dinner he surely would have noted it immediately given his propensity for social climbing; futhermore, the entry reads 'dinner at' rather than 'dine at', his usual way of noting meals.

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